Scientists denounce White House censoring.
Scientists denounce White House censoring.
Scientists and public and environmental health experts today “overwhelmingly denounced” the White House’s editing of CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding’s congressional testimony on global warming. They called the edits “frustrating,” “terrible” and “appalling,” and acknowledged that the White House is denying widely accepted scientific conclusions:
“What was removed was an uncontroversial report of what is currently known and believed about the fact of climate change, its health effects and its likely impacts on the United States.” — Dale Jamieson, director of environmental studies at New York University
“All of these [topics] are routinely mentioned in public health coursework across the nation. Each can be found in the pages of leading journals, such as Science and Nature. If anything, they understate the problem.” — Dr. Alan Ducatman, a professor of community medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine
“We talk of the politicization of science. In the politicization of this topic — the science wasn’t changed, it was deleted.” — Dr. Linda Rosenstock, dean of the UCLA School of Public Health
DeSmogBlog has more on the White House’s politicization of science.
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That’s what happens when teachers spend less than 2 hrs a week teaching science. You create a generation of ignoramuses susceptible to pseudoscience and religious idiocy.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:10 pmthis should surprise no one. truth, fact, those all went out the window as soon as Bush moved in. if any of those things mattered, we wouldn’t be in this Iraq quagmire.
don’t worry he’ll come around. when we see a video of Bush searching for the science (ala the WMD’s)…”it’s not under here…” we’ll know he’s started the backtracking.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:11 pmThat’s what happens when teachers spend less than 2 hrs a week teaching science. You create a generation of ignoramuses susceptible to pseudoscience and religious idiocy…
Comment by jrizal — October 25, 2007 @ 9:10 pm
… who don’t for a minute stop to question the wisdom of buying an 8-mile-per-gallon SUV, beef raised on a former Brazilian rainforest, or bread made from Roundup-Ready wheat raised with petroleum-based fertilizers. Stupid people are profitable.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:19 pmScience as the enemy of truth. Sound familiar?
October 25th, 2007 at 9:22 pmThe White House on Dr. Julie Gerberding’s congressional testimony on global warming: “She blinded us with science.”
October 25th, 2007 at 9:31 pmThe truth hurts and our dear leader is just trying to protect us from being hurt, NOT.
George Bush is a traitor to his country for the deliberate actions throughout government agencies to ignore existing laws and policies by his own appointees. Traitors in time of war can be hung, but since Mr. Bush is on speaking terms with God, perhaps we should crucify him?
October 25th, 2007 at 9:35 pmOne day in the distant future, when archeologists from another planet are studying the ruins of what was once a great civilization on Earth, they’ll ask themselves how such an apparently technologically advanced people could be so stupid as to reject all the science they had struggled so hard to learn, just to throw it away on a global war founded on religious beliefs. Be sure to leave a plaque in your basement for them to find that says, “They didn’t speak for me.”
October 25th, 2007 at 9:35 pmScience as the enemy of truth. Sound familiar?
Comment by Marcus Aurelius — October 25, 2007 @ 9:22 pm
The Inquisition
Galileo
Bruno
Leary
Einstein
October 25th, 2007 at 9:53 pmThen, they’ll chalk it up to politics.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:54 pmExactly.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:55 pmThese fascist thugs are no better than the fascist thugs in Germany…both destroy books and evidence to reality to help them in their bigotry and hate games.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:17 pmBrain dead, bootlicking, knuckle dragging, troglodytes do need no stinking science.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:19 pmOne reason I’ve been such a fan of Star Trek the past several years is because it shows mankind evolving to an era of peace (albeit a few hundred years from now), where science is embraced as a tool to better let us understand the universe.
With the current crop of close minded, religious fundie IDIOTS roaming the earth today, sometimes I fear humanity will never reach such an advanced state in the future.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:39 pmWhy do republicans hate science?
Comment by BARTLEBEE — October 25, 2007 @ 10:35 pm
It’s very common for the less-evolved humanoid rightwingers to fear and reject what they find beyond their capacity to understand. It’s in their DNA; they are far behind on the evolutionary scale.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:42 pmThe Bush Administration is ignoring abigissue that affects the health and well being of everyone in the Nation, and we have a Democratic Speaker of the House that is also ignoring the health and well being of the Nation by refusing to allow Impeachment of these criminals to go forward so we can resolve the mess they have made of this country.
It’s like a plot out of a bad B movie.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:56 pmI don’t think the Republicans realize just how big a nail this is in our coffin. One of the prime pieces of evidence that most Americans treasure is our prime position in the sciences. Remember the Space Race? Remember the fear of Japanese ‘fifth-generation computers”? It’s not entirely irrational: primacy in scientific research usually means technological advances, absd consequent primacy in war and commerce. Americans are proud of their scientific primacy and deeply worried about threats to it.
October 25th, 2007 at 11:01 pmSo when Right Wingers start to attack scientists, there’s something deeply worrying about it to most people. If you asked them whether they would want increased religiosity, most would say yes. If you asked whether you would want it at the cost of american scientific dominance, the answerr would be H&LL no!”
we have Al Gore to thank fir this, bless him. By setting himself up as a lightning rod, ha both got vastly more attention on the issue, but also revealed the lunacy of the right. They just couldn’t not attack Al Gore–only they’ve now set themselves up as attacking the global scientific community. I msaintsin they would never have done this had Al not taken center stage. And all this wingnut frothing may be the biggest boost fir American awareness of AGW possible.
The right is killing themselves on this.
Burn those books, Baby!
October 25th, 2007 at 11:03 pmWe are in Kansas anymore!
October 25th, 2007 at 11:25 pmI wonder why Dr. Julie Gerberding hasn’t resigned in protest over the censoring of her report?
October 25th, 2007 at 11:38 pmWorst.
President.
EVER!
October 26th, 2007 at 12:13 amThis thread just proves how full of hatred the commenters and moderators are at TP. Our universities are known to be the second most dangerous organization in the world today. And what is the chief product of our universities? Scientists. And scientists are known to be full of hatred and lies. They hate the truth and they want to impose socialism on us all and destroy the economy. They would tell any lie, no matter how outrageous, to get their next research grant. Even the ones who don’t need research grants. Scientists, led by Al Gore, are guilty of spreading a disease known as Bush Derangement Syndrome.
October 26th, 2007 at 3:00 amRebublicans mistrust science on several levels. First, the scientific method interferes with the Christian world view. There are many in the Republican Party who are ready for the rapture, and who do not want to be challenged by, well… hard data.
Second, the Republican Party is full of Right Wing Authoritian Followers. These are people who need a strong daddy to tell them, essentially, what to do and what to think. The Republican leadership well self-aware, they know their constituency and they know how to manipulate them. It’s pretty simple really, the leadership represents interests in business and they know how to manipulate their follers in such a way as to get their votes.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:34 amKevin Phillips laid it out pretty well in his book, American Theocracy.
“They didn’t speak for me.â€
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider — October 25, 2007 @ 9:35 pm
Good comment Wayne!
October 26th, 2007 at 7:35 amgood
October 26th, 2007 at 7:38 amI wonder why Dr. Julie Gerberding hasn’t resigned in protest over the censoring of her report?
Comment by Zooey — October 25, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
Hey Zooey, do you think everyone will follow their consciense. Think not.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:51 amWhy does the “Creation Museum†in Petersburg Kentucy have an exhibit of a Triceratops wearing a Saddle?
:|
Comment by BARTLEBEE — October 25, 2007 @ 10:40 pm
Good point BARTLEBEE, these people will put a SADDLE on anybody who will allow them.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:59 amJust in time for Halloween, check this out: Toe Tapping Gay Larry Craig’s lover tells all! You knew there’d be men coming out of the woodwork to shoot down this liar.
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October 26th, 2007 at 12:37 pm