Ex-Surgeon General Says White House Hushed Him

[ensho]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071001422.html?referrer=email&referrer=email&referrer=email


Former surgeon general Richard H. Carmona yesterday accused the Bush administration of muzzling him on sensitive public health issues, becoming the most prominent voice among several current and former federal science officials who have complained of political interference.

Carmona, a Bush nominee who served from 2002 to 2006, told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that political appointees in the administration routinely scrubbed his speeches for politically sensitive content and blocked him from speaking out on public health matters such as stem cell research, abstinence-only sex education and the emergency contraceptive Plan B.

"Anything that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political agenda is often ignored, marginalized or simply buried," he said. "The problem with this approach is that in public health, as in a democracy, there is nothing worse than ignoring science or marginalizing the voice of science for reasons driven by changing political winds."

-snip of the things the neo cons wouldn't let anyone speak about-
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the religiously insane hate scientists, and various Barons will go along with it because it puts money in their pockets

(but the religiously insane still will take advantage of things scientific)

[FormerDittoHead]

1. Plenty of room on the subject line to specify that it's not the current President but Bush.

DURING the Bush administration it was a very poorly kept "secret" that his administration was manipulating science to favor the interests of the right.

Interesting, but new posts addressing "The President" have plenty of room in the subject line to differentiate the administrations to avoid confusion.

[ensho]

3. that's the heading on the article

if it had been Obama I would have put the article in the pres. forum

[Keith Bee]

4. No WONDER Sid hounds you!

:rofl:

[FormerDittoHead]

5. The headline was fine when it was posted... FOUR YEARS ago. It's 4 years LATER now.. n/t

[FormerDittoHead]

6. nevermind. n/t

[Ptah]

2. Wednesday, July 11, 2007

[indepat]

7. Perhaps an even more effective propaganda machine than Goebbels cobbled?

:patriot:

[nilram]

8. Politics? Interfering with the Surgeon General? Quick -- notify Jocelyn Elders!

[midnight]

9. Blocking stem cell research is money in the insurance and

pharma co. bank accounts...