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Scientists denounce White House censoring.
Scientists and public and environmental health experts today “overwhelmingly denounced” the White House’s editing of CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding’s congressional testimony on global warming. They called the edits “frustrating, terrible and appalling,” and acknowledged that the White House is denying widely accepted scientific conclusions:
“What was removed was an uncontroversial report of what is currently known and believed about the fact of climate change, its health effects and its likely impacts on the United States.” - Dale Jamieson, director of environmental studies at New York University.
“All of these [topics] are routinely mentioned in public health coursework across the nation. Each can be found in the pages of leading journals, such as Science and Nature. If anything, they understate the problem.” - Dr. Alan Ducatman, a professor of community medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine.
“We talk of the politicization of science. In the politicization of this topic - the science wasn’t changed, it was deleted.” - Dr. Linda Rosenstock, dean of the UCLA School of Public Health.
DeSmogBlog has more on the White House’s politicization of science.
oktober 26th, 2007 at 11:06 am
That’s what happens when teachers spend less than 2 hrs a week teaching science. You create a generation of ignoramuses susceptible to pseudoscience and religious idiocy.
oktober 26th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Science as the enemy of truth. Sound familiar?
oktober 26th, 2007 at 11:08 am
The truth hurts and our dear leader is just trying to protect us from being hurt, NOT.
George Bush is a traitor to his country for the deliberate actions throughout government agencies to ignore existing laws and policies by his own appointees. Traitors in time of war can be hung, but since Mr. Bush is on speaking terms with God, perhaps we should crucify him?
oktober 26th, 2007 at 11:09 am
One day in the distant future, when archeologists from another planet are studying the ruins of what was once a great civilization on Earth, they’ll ask themselves how such an apparently technologically advanced people could be so stupid as to reject all the science they had struggled so hard to learn, just to throw it away on a global war founded on religious beliefs. Be sure to leave a plaque in your basement for them to find that says, ‘They didn’t speak for me.’