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."

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Background Info on the New York Times

[Revotron]

The New York Times is the same newspaper that, two years ago, released a very long, very fact-barren cover story, and later ADMITTED that everything in the article was a blatant lie.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JaniceShawCrous e/2007/01/04/ny_times_admits_to_a_blatant_lie

Re:Even slashdot is in on the act

[geekoid]

we are experiencing the effect right now.
Glaciers gone, lake in the atrtic dried up, building in Alaska falling into the sea, food in Alaska being rotten at the time of picking, lakes of fish turning up dead and oxygen deprived, just to name a few.

There are cheap solution. Three are technolgies for carbon collection, but there has to be government backing to get it going. Once it is working, then companies will be able to make some money setting up carbon capture points. The that technology can be spread to some key areas, thus providing jobs for the locals.

"and will be for about 10 years, or however long it will take to make sure the Sun isn't the culprit"

that is easily disproved now using the inverse square law, as well as comparing temperature increase with sun activity. It is actually a fairly simply thing to rule out. Plus it wouldn't explain the carbon. 50 ppm more we have now then at any historical record shows.

Many scientist I have talked to wish that was the cause, because they feel the government would gt behind solutions to the problems that are arising.