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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Skywatcher who wrote (314121)11/4/2002 3:28:24 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Most of their assault on environmental protection is occurring out of the limelight... for example, they've just packed a scientific panel tasked with studying lead poisoning of children with their own hand-picked choices, many of which are former mining industry consultants.

Wanna bet they finally decide that lead in the bloodstream is not as big a developmental hazard to children as previously thought?

On a number of National Academy of Sciences administered panels studying various environmental issues they have "packed the panels"... forcing off scientists who might have reached conclusions they don't want to see.

And, when a study reaches conclusions they don't agree with... sometimes they just don't publish it. The recent EPA annual report on climate change is a case in point - they dropped the sections addressing global temperature measurements from the study when they published it... the work was done, they just struck it before sending the report to the printers....

Quiet and sneaky they are... no frontal assaults, just a lot of happy talk in press conferences for PR reasons.

The policy changes are made quietly, and they then attempt to stage-manage the scientific studies that they can't kill entirely to produce the results they want to see.
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