02-03-04, 09:05 PM
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my name is Ranking Fullstop
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Promontorium Tremendum
Posts: 4,391
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...distort and suppress findings that contradict administration policies, stack panels with like-minded and underqualified scientists with ties to industry and constituent groups....
the Bushies precook science like they precook military intelligence...
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Bioethics Shuffle Ignites Outcry
By Kristen Philipkoski
President Bush's decision to replace two members of his bioethics panel with three appointees whose beliefs are closer to his own has sparked a new round of criticism on how the administration handles science.
On Friday, White House personnel called Elizabeth Blackburn, a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California at San Francisco, and William May, a former bioethics professor at Southern Methodist University, and informed them that their services were no longer needed on the panel. Both had been outspoken in their opinions that embryonic stem-cell research should move forward and could lead to valuable therapies for many diseases.
Three new members replaced Blackburn and May. All of them have expressed opposition to embryonic stem-cell research, making the 18-member panel largely opposed to it.
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http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,...w=wn_tophead_8
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