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Politics : A Neutral Corner
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To: Constant Reader who wrote (2198)7/12/2007 12:36:38 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 2253
 
Well you aren't the only too here.

I certainly would be willing to jump in on any interesting conversation that starts.

Maybe I'll try to start my own.

What do you think about Richard Carmona's statements about politics in government medicine and science? Do you think that the Bush administration really has interfered in these areas much more than other administrations? Perhaps its just that the political intervention was based on different politics.

I do find it kind of rich that Carmona is complaining about politics in the job of the surgeon general when he has pushed a five point plan that included -

"Recognize and plan for the fact that tomorrow's best hope to achieve millennium goals, extinguish asymmetries, eradicate social injustices, and make the world [a] healthier, safer and more secure place may be the newer, softer force projection of health diplomacy via prospective ongoing sustainable missions globally."

Also I think his claims about 2nd hand smoke are very dubious. Not that 2nd hand smoke isn't unhealthy but the claims made about it are rather extreme.

More broadly government campaigns against 2nd hand smoke or to reduce CO2 emissions, etc. are inherently political. Sometimes they might be based on science but they aren't themselves science. Scientists have a right to political opinion, and often they might have something worth hearing, but they don't and shouldn't have some special standing in the political process.

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cato-at-liberty.org
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