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Surgeon General Describes Censorship From Bush Administration
UniversalVM writes "The NY Times is reporting that the former Surgeon General in damaging testimony given to the senate describes how he was repeatedly censored by the Bush administration while speaking out about topics such as global warming, Stem cell research and so on. The effort was to 'water down' or weaken reports on important issues to suit Republican Agenda. He describes how he attended one meeting where Global Warming was being described as a 'Liberal Agenda' and being dismissed. He tried to intervene thinking that the people there did not understand the science so he set about explaining it to them, the result? He was never invited back."
These are the methods of a tin pot dictator, not the leader of a great and worthy nation.
All too true, and if you look closely you will find that the US is not a great and worthy nation. So Bush is acting entriely appropriately.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
You compare supressing the teaching of children to masterbate to supressing proper sex education that goes beyond abstinence only (that lesson has serve our current crop of teenage mothers so well!!), stem cell research that might save thousands from suffering, and mental health issues that impacting millions of Americans. Damn, you hit it on the money. Clinton was horrible president because he could have save thousands from the pain of trial and error. Hell, lets teach them how to have sex while were at it.
We bash Bush because he is the worst President in recent history. The US Government doesn't accomplish anything it sets out to do. Bring democracy to the Middle East- oops sorry, evacuate New Orleans- oops sorry, capture bin Laden- oops sorry, retard illegal immigration-oops sorry, or even get me a passport in 6 weeks- oops sorry. The failure is bad enough but he will knowingly do something wrong just to appease his base. We should and will bash Bush everday from now until he leaves office.
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I have a PhD, took organic chemistry and am a medical researcher, and it doesn't make my understanding of climatology better than anyone else's.
So you are a researcher with a PhD and think that you are just as qualified as the average high school dropout to critique someone else's research? Where did you go to school? I want to make sure to not send my family there for the "education" you got.
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"The current global warming scare"..
actually it's a fact. Only the republican agenda is trying to hide it.
It is testable, there is series historic data, and you can see it's effects going on RIGHT NOW.
So stop being propagandist, and do the science. God, do you realize what you are even saying? You are saying that 95% of all scientists are in a global conspiracy? That the some how revent other people from doing test? That some how other scientist can't see that data?
Here is a practical test:
China will be hurt by global warming more then any other country. knowing that, and they still signed with only minimal change to the document is practical proof.
We have more carbon in the air then ever detected through core samples going back nearly 800,000 years. a lot more.
Some questions for you:
Hom much carbon is put in the air by humans?
How much carbon do plants take at of the air?
how much carbon do they put back at night?
When they die?
How much carbon is in the air?
When you can answer those questions, then you can open your fucking mouth and have a discussion.
This crap denying crap made sense in the 70s, but now the evidence and facts say it is happened, and that the increase in carbon caused by man is a big part of it.
And it's not Global Warming, it's global climate change.
"The earth will wipe us out long before we could ever do damage to the planet. We are simply not that important and many of us just need to come to terms with that.
The earth is just a bunch of systems working together, we are adding an increased in a critical element used in those systems, so the earth will whange. personally I want it to change in a manner where my grandkids can live here.
Yes, grandkids. At the current rate they will not know the poles as I do, they won't have the food availability we currently enjoy, and they will have less land to live on. those are the BEST case. Most likely there will be a change in the global wind currents, and there sill certianly be more violent and extreme weather.
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his duties do include informing the president of health issues. Global climate change is going to bring with it several health issue, like diseases;which is his job to inform the president of.
It's ok, I remember when the Reagan administration insisted AIDS wasn't real, and refuse to acknowledge it. So I am use to republican presidencies stifling any research counter to their belief.
"...not promote his personal agenda. "
Climate change isn't a personal agenda issue, it's a scientific fact.
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