Cliff wrote:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0219-02.htm
"Bush Administration Accused of Suppressing, Distorting Science"
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WASHINGTON - A group of more than 60 top U.S. scientists, including 20 Nobel
laureates and several science advisers to past Republican presidents, on
Wednesday accused the Bush administration of manipulating and censoring science
for political purposes.
]
[
The report charges that administration officials have:


Ordered massive changes to a section on global warming in the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's 2003 Report on the Environment. Eventually, the entire
section was dropped.

I guess the victors don't get to write history.

Replaced a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fact sheet on proper
condom use with a warning emphasizing condom failure rates.

Facts are to be shunned? No condom has ever broken?

Ignored advice from top Department of Energy nuclear materials experts who
cautioned that aluminum tubes being imported by Iraq weren't suitable for use to
make nuclear weapons.

I've seen third-worlders using all sorts of materials unsuitable to the
task at hand.

Established political litmus tests for scientific advisory boards. In one case,
public health experts were removed from a CDC lead paint advisory panel and
replaced with researchers who had financial ties to the lead industry.

You think it will be put back in gasoline?

Suppressed a U.S. Department of Agriculture microbiologist's finding that
potentially harmful bacteria float in the air surrounding large hog farms.

I wonder if potentially harmful bacteria float in the air around
wastewater treatment plants?

Excluded scientists who've received federal grants from regulatory advisory
panels while permitting the appointment of scientists from regulated industries.
]

We've got to get a handle on all these grants.

"Science Under Attack in Today's World"
http://alaric3rh.home.sprynet.com/sc...-attack-a.html
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Cliff

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5232410
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In the Feb. 17 issue of Science Magazine, editor-in-chief Dr. Donald Kennedy
wrote an editorial critical of the White House. He focused on two recent
incidents: Top NASA climate expert James Hansen was told not to talk to the
media about his findings that voluntary measures proposed to deal with climate
change won't be sufficient, and that the problem is getting worse. NASA has
since said a 24-year-old Bush appointee who told Hansen not to talk no longer
works there.

If you're gonna work for the man, you're work for the man. If you're
gonna go rogue, then get your funding from Greenpeace.

The other episode cited in the editorial deals with the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, which Kennedy says has told its scientists not to do
interviews about a study linking increased water temperatures to hurricane
intensity.
]

Don't be silly. If hurricanes weren't linked to water temperature,
then we wouldn't have a hurricane "season," there would be hurricanes
year round. And hurricanes would occur in the arctic ocean. There
must be more to this that Kennedy has reported.

[
Dr. John Marburger has been the president's Science Advisor for just over four
years. ..... And he describes criticism from the science community itself as
"irrelevant." .... Marburger says he thinks the relationship between policy
makers and scientists is made more difficult by the rapid pace of scientific
progress.
]

Cliff, thanks.

On 25 Mar 2006 11:41:29 -0800, wrote:

Ignored advice from top Department of Energy nuclear materials experts who
cautioned that aluminum tubes being imported by Iraq weren't suitable for use to
make nuclear weapons.

I've seen third-worlders using all sorts of materials unsuitable to the
task at hand.

snicker
--
Cliff

On 25 Mar 2006 11:41:29 -0800, wrote:

Cliff, thanks.

Anytime g.
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Cliff