US scientists lost a valuable opportunity to communicate and collaborate with researchers around the world when the Bush administration’s decided to drastically limit its participation in the 2004 International AIDS Conference in Bangkok.

Department of Interior tampered with and ultimately reversed the findings of government biologists regarding the threatened status of the marbled murrelet

In April 2004, the Department of Health and Human Services implemented a new policy requiring that an HHS official approve all experts participating on UN scientific panels, including the World Health Organization.

Federal agency public affairs offices have used "minders" --officials who are assigned to listen in on scientists’ media interviews -- to enforce media policies more restrictively over some climate change scientists.

In 2004 the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) exaggerated the impact of forest fires on spotted owl habitat in an attempt to expand old-growth logging in the Sierra Nevada.

Qualified nominees to the advisory board of NIH’s Fogarty International Center were rejected by the Bush administration for political reasons.

In late 2004, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new selenium standards that scientists say are much too high.

Julie MacDonald, a deputy assistant secretary of the interior with no background in wildlife biology, changed the scientific content of a report examining the vulnerability of the greater sage grouse, a highly threatened ground bird of the American West.

The Bush administration dismissed Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, a leading cell biologist, and Dr. William May, a prominent medical ethicist, from the President's Council on Bioethics.

The Bush administration overruled the opinions of its own government scientists in deciding that the marbled murrelet in California, Oregon, and Washington was not genetically or ecologically distinct from bird populations in Canada and Alaska.