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<DIV>Ted,</DIV>
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<DIV>Bush is like some of the posters and apologists on this list. Bush
and they do not wish for material to be posted to which they disagree or makes
them look ignorant. Bush and some of these mentally constipated,
deluded guardians of public discussion even think themselves as
libertarians.</DIV>
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<DIV>W.</DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=starbliss@gmail.com href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=deco@moscow.com href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">Art
Deco</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:04 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science
Basis (IPCC) Summary</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Wayne et. al.</DIV>
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<DIV>Doesn't this summary assume an understanding and respect for the basics of
the scientific method by policy makers? And lacking such understanding and
respect, policymakers can ignore or marginalize this summary. </DIV>
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<DIV>Anyone studying the Bush administrations overall approach to scientific
findings when they contradict their policy agenda reveals that science is
deliberately mystified and reconstructed to suit their aims...Here's what a
commentary in Scientific American details about the Bush administrations history
regarding respect for science: </DIV>
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<DIV class=titleArticle><B>Bush-League Lysenkoism</B></DIV></TD>
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<DIV class=leadIn>The White House bends science to its will</DIV></TD>
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<DIV class=home>Starting in the 1930s, the Soviets spurned genetics in
favor of Lysenkoism, a fraudulent theory of heredity inspired by Communist
ideology. Doing so crippled agriculture in the U.S.S.R. for decades. You
would think that bad precedent would have taught President George W. Bush
something. But perhaps he is no better at history than at science.
<P>In February his White House received failing marks in a statement
signed by 62 leading scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, 19
recipients of the National Medal of Science, and advisers to the
Eisenhower and Nixon administrations. It begins, "Successful application
of science has played a large part in the policies that have made the
United States of America the world's most powerful nation and its citizens
increasingly prosperous and healthy. Although scientific input to the
government is rarely the only factor in public policy decisions, this
input should always be weighed from an objective and impartial perspective
to avoid perilous consequences.... The administration of George W. Bush
has, however, disregarded this principle."
<P>Doubters of that judgment should read the report from the Union of
Concerned Scientists (UCS) that accompanies the statement, "Restoring
Scientific Integrity in Policy Making" (available at <A
href="http://www.ucsusa.org">www.ucsusa.org</A>). Among the affronts that
it details: The administration misrepresented the findings of the National
Academy of Sciences and other experts on climate change. It meddled with
the discussion of climate change in an Environmental Protection Agency
report until the EPA eliminated that section. It suppressed another EPA
study that showed that the administration's proposed Clear Skies Act would
do less than current law to reduce air pollution and mercury contamination
of fish. It even dropped independent scientists from advisory committees
on lead poisoning and drug abuse in favor of ones with ties to industry.
<BR><BR>Let us offer more examples of our own. The Department of Health
and Human Services deleted information from its Web sites that runs
contrary to the president's preference for "abstinence only" sex education
programs. The Office of Foreign Assets Control made it much more difficult
for anyone from "hostile nations" to be published in the U.S., so some
scientific journals will no longer consider submissions from them. The
Office of Management and Budget has proposed overhauling peer review for
funding of science that bears on environmental and health regulations--in
effect, industry scientists would get to approve what research is
conducted by the EPA.
<P>None of those criticisms fazes the president, though. Less than two
weeks after the UCS statement was released, Bush unceremoniously replaced
two advocates of human embryonic stem cell research on his advisory
Council on Bioethics with individuals more likely to give him a hallelujah
chorus of opposition to it.
<P>Blind loyalists to the president will dismiss the UCS report because
that organization often tilts left--never mind that some of those
signatories are conservatives. They may brush off this magazine's reproofs
the same way, as well as the regular salvos launched by California
Representative Henry A. Waxman of the House Government Reform Committee
[see <A
href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=30&articleID=0000FF81-A7DD-1084-A73E83414B7F0000">Insights</A>]
and maybe even Arizona Senator John McCain's scrutiny for the Committee on
Commerce, Science and Transportation. But it is increasingly impossible to
ignore that this White House disdains research that inconveniences it.
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<DIV>Ted Moffett</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 2/7/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Art Deco</B>
<<A href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
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<P align=left>Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis</P>
<P align=left>Summary for Policymakers</P></FONT></B></DIV>
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