*Rolls Eyes*
Jul. 10th, 2007 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundAgain, no real surprise. Everything really IS about politics for this crowd, isn't it?
Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona denounces Bush administration’s political interference
"President Bush’s first surgeon general testified Tuesday that his speeches were censored to match administration political positions.
He was prevented from giving the public accurate scientific information on issues such as stem-cell research and teen pregnancy prevention, he said.
“Anything that doesn’t fit into the political appointees’ ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried,” Richard Carmona, surgeon general from 2002 to 2006, told a congressional committee. “The job of surgeon general is to be the doctor of the nation, not the doctor of a political party.”
Carmona’s remarks were the latest in a series of complaints from government scientists about what they say are administration efforts to control — and sometimes distort — scientific evidence in order to support policy decisions. NASA scientists have complained of pressure to tone down warnings about global warming. EPA officials have said that technical information on power plant emissions and oil drilling have been ignored."
Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona denounces Bush administration’s political interference
"President Bush’s first surgeon general testified Tuesday that his speeches were censored to match administration political positions.
He was prevented from giving the public accurate scientific information on issues such as stem-cell research and teen pregnancy prevention, he said.
“Anything that doesn’t fit into the political appointees’ ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried,” Richard Carmona, surgeon general from 2002 to 2006, told a congressional committee. “The job of surgeon general is to be the doctor of the nation, not the doctor of a political party.”
Carmona’s remarks were the latest in a series of complaints from government scientists about what they say are administration efforts to control — and sometimes distort — scientific evidence in order to support policy decisions. NASA scientists have complained of pressure to tone down warnings about global warming. EPA officials have said that technical information on power plant emissions and oil drilling have been ignored."
