"Wood was struck by the overwhelming number of people who attended. 'Scientists from across the country, from all kinds of fields, were there,' she says, 'because they care a great deal about how science is done and how data are analyzed and how the information is used.' Why were they finally voicing their fears? 'I think as people become more aware [of the interference in science], they are willing to step up and say, 'This is not what we want,'' Wood says.
For a group of researchers, the rhetoric was fiery. Baltimore accused the Bush administration of suppressing science. And when Wood said that morale at the FDA had sunk to a new low because of overwhelming pressure from social conservatives, she got a standing ovation."
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