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To: Bill who wrote (63643)	4/21/2006 8:44:22 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Do you recall when the tobacco interests said there were no "sound scientific studies" to prove a link to lung cancer? How many people died before the public became convinced?

To: Bill who wrote (63643)	4/21/2006 11:20:36 AM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 173976

>>>If "no sound scientific studies" exist, maybe the proponents should put down their pipes and get to work on a sound scientific study.<<< That's not how the Bush-Cheney Administration operates! For example: Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 6, 2006; A27 Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. The result, the researchers say, is a danger that Americans are not getting the full story on how the climate is changing. Employees and contractors working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, along with a U.S. Geological Survey scientist working at an NOAA lab, said in interviews that over the past year administration officials have chastised them for speaking on policy questions; removed references to global warming from their reports, news releases and conference Web sites; investigated news leaks; and sometimes urged them to stop speaking to the media altogether. Their accounts indicate that the ideological battle over climate-change research, which first came to light at NASA, is being fought in other federal science agencies as well. These scientists -- working nationwide in research centers in such places as Princeton, N.J., and Boulder, Colo. -- say they are required to clear all media requests with administration officials, something they did not have to do until the summer of 2004. Before then, point climate researchers -- unlike staff members in the Justice or State departments, which have long-standing policies restricting access to reporters -- were relatively free to discuss their findings without strict agency oversight. ***MORE*** washingtonpost.com