Clark To Bush: Leave Science to the Scientists

[Bread and Circus]

For Immediate Release
Date: January 14, 2004


Clark To Bush: Leave Science to the Scientists
Little Rock - The Washington Post reported today that the Bush Administration has altered a scientific report on racial disparities in health care to make the findings sound more upbeat than the authors of the study intended.

The article finds that "top administration officials" played down the extent of the inequality and eliminated reference to it as a "national problem."

Wes Clark criticized the changes made by politicians:

"The Bush Administration has a disturbing pattern of tampering with information when it doesn't tell Americans what he wants them to hear. They did it with global warming, they did it with birth control, and they did it with the intelligence on Iraq. Now they're doing it with health care. Mr. President, leave science to the scientists.

http://www.clark04.com/speeches/029/

[phillybri]

1. Friggin' awesome!!!

Why does Bush even bother meddling in scientific matters? I thought born-again Christians rejected science???

[beawr]

2. If You Can't Pronounce Nuclear, keep out of it you Dummy

I imagine Chimpy did not do so well in his science courses.....

[spooky3]

3. He's absolutely right about this.

When you have leaders who believe it is right to distort facts in order to derive the conclusion they want, rather than to derive the conclusion most supported by the facts, you have a serious problem.