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More recently, its become the target of the trump administrations latest assault on science. May 30, 2019 there is a nonprofit organization of scientists working to encourage evidencebased decision making on issues ranging from climate change to human survival to racial and economic equality. He has appeared numerous times on radio and television, and has been cited in many local and national publications. Nicole pinko archive union of concerned scientists. In response, some corporations manipulate science and scientists to distort the truth about the dangers of their products, using a set of tactics made famous decades ago by the tobacco industry. The union of concerned scientists ucs puts rigorous, independent science to work to solve our planets most pressing problems.
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