The Associated Press is reporting that the National Academy of Sciences has suppressed a scientific assessment of the dairy industry's vulnerability to bioterror, after the administration requested the paper be delayed. The authors have argued elsewhere that these vulnerabilities demand government action to make us safer. It is only the latest example of the many ways that the homeland remains unsecured long after 9/11, because the Bush administration refuses to regulate the industries whose campaign funding propelled it into office. This case is not the first time the NAS has been willing to be subservient to the Bush administration, even when the administration is subordinating science to politics. For example, the NY Times revealed last year that the NAS allowed the White House to edit an NAS scientific report on the health effects of mercury, with changes that downplayed the risks of mercury, replaced specific enumerations of mercury-related harms with bland, general references, and introduced additional emphasis on uncertainty to make the science of mercury's neurotoxic effects seem less reliable. The NAS has also, on several occasions, stacked its scientific advisory panels with industry hires.