IHT: The White House distorts science for political ends

[FlashHarry]

This is just f*cking sickening. Apparently, nothing is sacred to these creeps.

From the International Herald Tribune.

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  CASPER, Wyoming When is science not science? When politics is added to the mix. The Bush administration has manipulated the scientific process and legitimate scientific conclusions for political ends.
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In the Bush administration, non-science parades as science in the service of political or ideological agendas. Undermining scientific research is a dangerous and short-sighted approach to public policy.
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The Minority Staff Special Investigations Division of the House Committee on Government Reform prepared a report for Representative Henry Waxman, Democrat of California, entitled, "Politics and Science in the Bush Administration" (www.reform.house.gov/min). The report points out that the public depends "upon federal agencies to promote scientific research and to develop science-based policies that protect the nation's health and welfare. Historically, these agencies - such as the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency - have had global reputations for scientific excellence."
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Even leading scientific journals are questioning the scientific integrity of these agencies. This year the editor of Science wrote that there is growing evidence that the Bush administration "invades areas once immune to this kind of manipulation."
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[Fenris]

1. The Lords of Junk Science

This administration has to be the most ass-backwards ever. Think about it. They're trying to undo SCIENCE!! In Bush's America, condoms cause pregnancy, arsenic gives water a delightful kick, global warming means milder winters, and abortion gives you breast cancer!

Yep, building the bridge to the 1950s.

[pinerow]

2. They also suppored the ex-communication of Galileo, and

are full-fledged members of the "Flat-Earth Society"



:toast:

[LoneStarLiberal]

3. "Creation Science" and The Women's Right To Know Act (TX)

Look no further than this laughable attempt at wedding mythology and science. Believe what you want, believe what you will (since we can do that here in the United States), but quit trying to enslave science to "prove" your creation story is more rigorous than anyone else's.

Our wonderful State of Texas legislature passed an odious pile of conservative wanking called "The Women's Right to Know Act" this past session that mandates debunked science as state policy. Under this Act, women seeking to undergo an abortion in the state of Texas will now be told about the body of science that links abortion to increase risks of breast cancer later in life.

This piece of conservative filth was written and passed through our legislature on the heels of the National Institutes of Health standing up to bigoted pressure from Republican knuckle-draggers in Congress who threatened them with budget cuts if they published the results of recent research, **REPUTABLE** research, that showed that this supposed link is nothing more than an artifact of poorly constructed research designs.

It just goes to show you: Some people evolve; for everyone else there is the Republican Party.

[pansypoo53219]

4. what

DON'T they distort?
laws of physics?

[FlashHarry]

5. Maybe that's next on the agenda...

I sure as sh*t wouldn't put it past them.