Top scientists and environmentalists on Wednesday accused the Bush administration of suppressing and distorting scientific findings that run counter to its own policies.They backed a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists that said the administration had suppressed research on global warming, air quality, sexual health, cancer and other issues.
The report said there had been a systematic effort to manipulate the government's supposedly independent scientific advisory system "to prevent the appearance of advice that might run counter to the administration's political agenda."
"We are not ... taking issue with the administration's policies. We are taking issue with the administration's distortion of the process with which science enters into its decisions," Dr. Kurt Gottfried, a professor of physics at Cornell University and chairman of the UCS, told reporters.
Russell Train, head of the Environmental Protection Agency under former Republican presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, said that during his tenure "I do not recall ever receiving a suggestion, let alone an order, from the White House as to how I should make a regulatory decision."
"How times have changed," Train added. (via Reuters)
Am I dumb or just underinformed? Go ahead bash me!
Since no one has ever proven this Greenhouse Effect or that Global Warming actually is occurring, what's the difference if spending on science to study it is suppressed?
And no one in his right mind could possibly measure the "sexual health" of a nation. That's absurd. Think about it, we have diseases all over the place and statistics and percentages and I've never known anyone who admitted to having any or them. If the "percentages" were correct, I'd have run into at least one in the last half century.
And how much more money do we need to pour after things that will have no measurable product or service to us? There are times to spend and times not to spend. I think we need the money for this war thing that we're in. We didn't ask for it but it's here. We're spending money on it, lots of it.
I see logic in cinching up a bit for a time. We really do need to spend what we have, not what we don't have. Credit cards suck. They keep me wondering why I ever got one.
Please show me logic, evidence, proof that we need to spend more. Feelings ain't cutting it any more. I want facts, please.
Tom Braund
Look here for some facts.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041102/sc_nm/environment_arctic_dc_1
Keep up the GOOD WORK ! Didn't have time to write before the election, but it still holds true. Thanks !!
Posted by: Pam on November 15, 2004 04:27 PM
