The Academy of Sciences is generally a respected organization, but it has been politically used. It was a hand-picked panel. For example, the chairman of the panel was a very partisan Democrat, Mr. Schultz, who, as my colleagues know, was head of the Council of Economic Advisors under Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson.
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