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CHRIS MOONEY, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Hydraulic Fracturing and the Democrats’ War on Science.
BILL MAHER: Anti-Science.
Chris Mooney, call your office.
CHRIS MOONEY, CALL YOUR OFFICE: When Bureaucrats Stymie Science: The CDC’s policy on the meningococcal vaccine wastes taxpayer dollars and threatens public health. “Government bureaucrats usually hold others to strict standards, rules, and prescribed procedures. This administration, in particular, has repeatedly promised to set a high bar for honesty and transparency. How ironic, then, that this ‘public’ process has been so murky and problematic.”
WAR ON SCIENCE: Kansas State University class: ‘Gender is not determined by chromosomes.’
Chris Mooney, call your office.
JOURNALISM: Washington Post hires Chris Mooney, author of ‘The Republican War on Science,’ to cover global warming.
Which reminds me of my old “Chris Mooney, Call Your Office” series.
A “WAR AGAINST SCIENCE?” E-mails indicate EPA suppressed report skeptical of global warming. Chris Mooney, call your office!
WAR ON SCIENCE: Congress: Obama Admin Fired Top Scientist to Advance Climate Change Plans. “A top DoE scientist who liaised with Congress on the matter was fired by the Obama administration for being too forthright with lawmakers, according to the report, which provides an in-depth look at the White House’s efforts to ensure senior staffers toe the administration’s line.”
THE ATLANTIC HARSHES THE NARRATIVE: The Republican Party Isn’t Really the Anti-Science Party: Conservative conflict with science on evolution and global warming has been exaggerated—while liberals get a free pass for their own failings.
You knew this was coming: Chris Mooney, call your office.
SHUTDOWN THEATER: Govt. Websites Shuttered: The ‘Anti-Science’ Administration?
And yes, the obligatory Chris Mooney — call your office!
You know, if all these government services can be shut down whenever a President wants to score political points, why are we even thinking about getting the government into healthcare?
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, PHILISTINES WOULD SHUT DOWN SCIENCE EDUCATION. And They Were Right! “On 1 October, NIH will shutter its nine-person Office of Science Education (OSE) and cease to conduct a range of activities designed to foster health science education among elementary and secondary school students and the general public.”
Chris Mooney, call your office.
WAR ON SCIENCE: Obama’s Science Commitment, FDA Face Ethics Scrutiny in Wake of GMO Salmon Fiasco.
Two years ago, the FDA had said it was going to release its environmental assessment, the final document in the approval process, within weeks. It was finally and quietly posted on the FDA’s website only last Friday—just hours before the long holiday weekend—and published in the Federal Register on Wednesday.
The release came, FDA sources say, in response to the publication of an investigation in Slate by the Genetic Literacy Project two days before, on December 19. The GLP, which I head, had reported that the FDA had definitively concluded last spring that the fish would have “no significant impact” on the environment and was “as safe as food from conventional Atlantic salmon.” However, the draft assessment, dated April 19, 2012, was not released—blocked on orders from the White House.
The seven month delay, sources within the government say, came after discussions late last spring between Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius’ office and officials linked to Valerie Jarrett at the Executive Office, who were debating the political implications of approving the GM salmon. Genetically modified plants and animals are controversial among the president’s political base, which was thought critical to his reelection efforts during a low point in the president’s popularity. . . .
According to sources, the White House political block—a direct violation of numerous ethics regulations and possibly of federal laws—was instituted over the objections of scientists at the FDA, but with the awareness of HHS Secretary Sibelius, her senior adviser Andrea Palm and the Office of Science and Technology Policy and its director John Holdren, who is responsible for enforcing “science integrity” across government agencies.
Chris Mooney, call your office.