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Re: Bush and Science
As the moderator suggested, I will respond to this
off-server.
--- Howard Long <hflong@pacbell.net> wrote:
> John,
> Bush is a blessing to scientists. This IS a
> radiation safety issue.
>
> I have, as a Board Member of Doctors for Disaster
> Preparedness, critically
> questioned experts in three of the areas listed by
> Waxman, (a government
> expansionist). I find Bush policy generally sound
> science.
> Radsafe IS directly concerned with these:
>
> 1, Missile Defense
> A newly improved Patriot barely stopped an improved
> Scud from wiping out the
> Quatar command center - and the general staff that
> then conducted a war with
> the least loss of civilian life in history
> (especially compared with the
> dire predictions of Waxman). That improvement would
> not likely have been
> available, had the US Supreme Court allowed the Fla
> Supreme Court to make ex
> post facto law about ballots. Boost phase missile
> stoppers will soon protect
> us in ways the Clinton-Gore regime had blocked. That
> is urgent with N Korea
> having NUCLEAR weapons. Teller and Lowell Wood (
> LLNL developer of Brilliant
> Pebbles) are among those we quizzed about missle
> defense at several
> meetings. Bush is credible here, critics not.
>
> 2, Global Warming
> Bush's Kyoto stance agrees with 17,000 scientists
> www.oism.org/pproject
> Again, Bush is credible, critics not. With Kyoto,
> there would be little
> money for new reactors, fewer fossile fuel
> generators and a lower stanrd of
> living from less energy. Besides, there is more CO2
> coming into the USA from
> the west than going out to the east! (Europe should
> pay us!). With Bush, we
> should expect more NUCLEAR generators started than
> with Gore or Hillary,
> wouldn't you agree?..
>
> 3, Workplace Regulation
> Repetitive injury, like obesity, is largely personal
> responsibility. I treat
> it daily. Bush removal of some regulation just made
> less lawyer fodder.
> Three physiotherapy offices told me last year that
> over 90% of their
> referals involve lawyers.The cost of
> that drives businesses (including NUCLEAR) out of
> California - until the
> Terminator cleans house of politicians like Waxman.
>
> I find Bush much closer to science than was his
> predecessor - or is the
> misinformation you perpetuate below.
>
> Howard Long
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>
> To: "RADSAFE" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:37 AM
> Subject: Science and government policy
>
>
> I would be remiss in not posting this article.
> However, I would suggest that futher discussions
> should be held off line as it is really not a
> radiation safety issue.
>
> The original can be found at
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31318-2003Aug7.html
>
> The Web site listing administration bias is at
> http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/.
>
> I believe that is important to consider all side of
> an
> issue and make up your own mind.
> -----------------
>
>
>
> Bush Misuses Science, Report Says
>
> By Rick Weiss
>
> The Bush administration has repeatedly
> mischaracterized scientific
> facts to bolster its political agenda in areas
> ranging
> from abstinence
> education and condom use to missile defense,
> according
> to a detailed
> report released yesterday by Rep. Henry A. Waxman
> (D-Calif.).
>
> The White House quickly dismissed the report as
> partisan sniping.
>
> The 40-page document, "Politics and Science in the
> Bush
> Administration," was compiled by the minority staff
> of
> the House Government Reform
> Committee's special investigations division. It
> marks
> the launch of a new
> effort by Waxman and others in Congress to highlight
> simmering anger
> among scientists and others who believe that
> President
> Bush -- much more
> than his predecessors -- has been spiking science
> with
> politics to
> justify conservative policies in areas such as
> reproductive rights, embryo
> research, energy policy and environmental health.
>
> "The Administration's political interference with
> science has led to
> misleading statements by the President, inaccurate
> responses to
> Congress, altered web sites, suppressed agency
> reports, erroneous international
> communications, and the gagging of scientists,"
> according to the
> report, posted yesterday at
> www.politicsandscience.org. "The subjects
> involved span a broad range, but they share a common
> attribute: the
> beneficiaries of the scientific distortions are
> important supporters of the
> President, including social conservatives and
> powerful
> industry groups."
>
> White House spokesman Adam Levine said it would
> take
> time for the
> administration to address the specifics of the
> report.
> However, he said,
> "I'm hard-pressed to believe anyone would consider
> Congressman Waxman an
> objective arbiter of scientific fact."
>
> Several prestigious scientific journals have
> editorialized about the
> Bush administration's dealings in science in recent
> months, including
> Science, Nature and the New England Journal of
> Medicine.
>
> An editor at Science, for example, recently said in
> print that the
> administration was injecting politics into arenas of
> science "once immune
> to this kind of manipulation."
>
> And the editors of the Lancet noted "growing
> evidence of explicit
> vetting of appointees to influential [scientific]
> panels on the basis of
> their political or religious opinions" and warned
> against "any further
> right-wing incursions" on those panels.
>
> The General Accounting Office has been
> investigating
> such allegations
> since some in Congress asked the agency to do so in
> September, but it
> has not released any findings.
>
> Among the purported abuses documented in the
> report:
>
> . "Performance measures" used to determine the
> effectiveness of
> federally funded "abstinence only" sex education
> programs were altered by
> the administration in ways that made it easier to
> say
> the programs were
> effective. And information about how to use a condom
> -- along with
> scientific data showing that sex education does not
> lead to earlier or
> increased sexual activity in young people -- was
>
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail: crispy_bird@yahoo.com
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