"Bush's War on Science" by Gov. Howard Dean, M. D.

[madfloridian]

(On Edit: I reposted this important editorial in this forum where I should have put it to begin with..GD is dropping fast because of F9/11)

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Gov. Howard Dean, M.D., June 28, 2004
Bush’s War on Science

By Gov. Howard Dean M.D.

SNIP.."I write this week’s column as a physician.

The Bush administration has declared war on science. In the Orwellian world of 21st century America, two plus two no longer equals four where public policy is concerned, and science is no exception. When a right-wing theory is contradicted by an inconvenient scientific fact, the science is not refuted; it is simply discarded or ignored.

AND good for him for this paragraph....
SNIP..."Egregious examples abound. Over-the-counter morning-after contraceptive sales are banned, despite the recommendation for approval by an independent panel of the Food and Drug Administration review board. The health risks of mercury were discounted by a White House staffer who simply crossed out the word "confirmed" from a phrase describing mercury as a "confirmed public health risk."

AND this is the worst yet:
SNIP..."A National Cancer Institute fact sheet is doctored to suggest that abortion increases breast cancer risk, even though the American Cancer Society concluded that the best study discounts that. Reports on the status of minority health and the importance of breast feeding are similarly watered down to appease right-wing ideologies."END SNIP

Many of us have known these issues, as Henry Waxman has been investigating such things. I am afraid this will not get much play, and it really should.

[jeff30997]

1. Soon,the earth will be flat again.

What a bunch of @#$@%.:silly:

[ixion]

4. and the wax candle will be considered high technology

and people will cringe when thunderstorms errupt and head for the local church, where they will cry and pray to some angry god not to destroy them.

And that is what the fundie neocons consider 'progress'. :crazy:

[Cha]

2. Can you imagine if all the things we

thought were important would get alot of "play"..how much better off our Country would be? Instead.. we're living in this surreal Orwellian Society that George Orwell had the prescience to write about.

[Ruffhowse]

3. The elevation of "creation science" to the same level as evolution....

...is another goal of these fundamentalist psychos. If I ever see any of my kids with a textbook containing ANYTHING concerning "creation science", I think it will be time to move to Canada.