Tom Teepen: With Science, Bushies Play Fast and Loose

[Dudley_DUright]

A report prepared for Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., catches the Bush administration red-handed distorting and suppressing politically awkward scientific findings and boosting ideology-driven panaceas that ignore overwhelming contrary research. This is political correctness of an extraordinarily reckless sort.

The report was prepared by the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Government Reform. Forget its partisan origins. This is a picture that should disturb Republicans perhaps most of all. What is the future of a governing party that founds its policies on loopy pseudo-science?

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And the administration has forced the Centers for Disease Control to back away from broad-based sex education, which research has found to be effective, in favor of abstinence-only programs that research has not found to be effective. Sex education, under new Bush guidelines, is evaluated not by the resulting sexual practices of participants but by their subsequent sexual beliefs, and condoms are scorned, dismissed for disease prevention and contraception even though the data are compelling that they are useful for both.

There is more than one way for a president to lie about sex. This one is actually dangerous.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0815-03.htm

[ameriphile]

1. Here's the direct link to Waxman's investigation:

http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience


I would suggest that everyone look at this page. It's quite alarming.

[Capt_Nemo]

2. Flashbacks of Lysenko

and "politicaly correct science" under Stalin.