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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 10/25/2007 : 05:37:20
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More political meddling in science by the Bushies: WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources familiar with the documents.
Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Atlanta-based CDC, the government's premier disease monitoring agency, told a Senate hearing that climate change "is anticipated to have a broad range of impacts on the health of Americans."
But her prepared testimony was devoted entirely to the CDC's preparation, with few details on what effects climate change could have on the spread of disease. Only during questioning did she describe some specific diseases that likely would be affected, again without elaboration.
Her testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee had much less information on health risks than a much longer draft version Gerberding submitted to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review in advance of her appearance. |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 10/25/2007 : 05:41:21 [Permalink]
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Yeah, The Bad Astronomer has posted about this too here
At what point do you draw the line for outrage? Not when stem cell research is crippled? Not when a diagnosis is given from the Senate floor and then lied about? Not when lies are spread about the efficacy of a safe, clean contraceptive, and opposite lies are spread about abstinence? How about the support of creationism, and the extreme weakening — I would call it the near-total destruction — of the wall between Church and State?
When do you finally get outraged? |
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by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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White House "eviscerated" CDC testimony on MMGW
