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Politics : A Neutral Corner -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Constant Reader who wrote (2198)	7/12/2007 12:36:38 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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. Recommend reading cato-at-liberty.org

To: Constant Reader who wrote (2198)	7/12/2007 1:56:12 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2253

OK. I added the subjectmark back. Too pooped to contribute today. It's not as hot out there has it has been but it's still way too hot for me. I just got home from eyeglass shopping. Been doing that for about a week. It's more painful, I think, than shopping for a car, which is saying something. I have trouble finding glasses that fit my face. The ones on display are always too big. Maybe some aren't, but you have to pick them up and put them on to tell. And of course, you can't see them all that well without your prescription. And sweat makes them slip down your face. I'm looking now at rimless glasses. Then I can get the lenses custom cut, albeit at a custom price. So, I'm brain dead now and otherwise too pooped to discuss much of anything. Settling in for the evening... Thanks for trying to open this back up.