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Bush Appointee Blocked 2006 Surgeon

General's Report

http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/072907Y.shtml<\/a>

Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman of the Washington Post report in

Sunday 29 July 2007 edition that a 2006 report urging Americans to help

tackle global health problems was kept from public

view largely because it did not promote White House objectives.

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Excerpts:

Richard H. Carmona, who commissioned the \"Call to

Action on Global Health\" while serving as surgeon general

from 2002 to 2006, recently cited its suppression as an

example of the Bush administration's frequent efforts

during his tenure to give scientific documents a political

twist. At a July 10 House committee hearing, Carmona did

not cite Steiger by name or detail the report's contents and

its implications for American public health.

After a long struggle that pitted top scientific and medical

experts inside and outside the government against Steiger

and his political bosses, Carmona refused to make the

requested changes, according to the officials. Carmona

engaged in similar fights over other public health reports,

including an unpublished report on prison health. A few

days before the end of his term as the nation's senior

medical officer, he was abruptly told he would not be

reappointed.



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Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman of the Washington Post report in Sunday 29 July 2007

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Scientific Integrity Program | Union of Concerned Scientists

Union of Concerned Scientists. Page Last Revised: 07\/26\/07.

We are mobilizing scientists and citizens alike to push for reforms

that will protect our health, safety, and environment.

http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/scientific_integrity\/<\/a>

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Scientists claim Bush bends data

James Glanz

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Distortions are said to serve policy goals



More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, have

issued a statement asserting that the Bush administration has systematically

distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment,

health, biomedical research and nuclear weapons at home and abroad.

The sweeping accusations on Wednesday were discussed later in a

conference call organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists, an

independent organization that focuses on technical issues and has

often taken stands at odds with administration policy. The organization

also issued a 38-page report Wednesday.

The statement and report accuse the administration of repeatedly

censoring and suppressing reports by its own scientists, stacking

advisory committees with unqualified political appointees, disbanding

government panels that provide unwanted advice, and refusing to

seek independent scientific expertise in some cases.

According to the report, the Bush administration has misrepresented

scientific consensus on global warming, censored at least one report on

climate change, manipulated scientific findings on the emissions of mercury

from power plants and suppressed information on condom use.

The report asserts that the administration allowed industries with

conflicts of interest to influence technical advisory committees and

subjected prospective members of scientific panels to political litmus

tests. \"Other administrations have, on occasion, engaged in such

practices, but not so systematically nor on so wide a front,\" the

statement from the scientists said, adding that they believed the

administration had \"misrepresented scientific knowledge and misled

the public about the implications of its policies.\"

Kurt Gottfried, an emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University

who is chairman of the board of directors of the Union of Concerned

Scientists, said the administration had \"engaged in practices that are

in conflict with spirit of science and the scientific method.\"

John Marburger 3rd, science adviser to President George W. Bush

and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White

House, said it was important to listen to \"the distinguished scientific

leadership in this country.\" But he said the report by the Union of

Concerned Scientists consisted of a largely disconnected list of events

that did not make the case for a suppression of good scientific advice

by the administration.

\"I think there are incidents where people have got their feathers

ruffled,\" Marburger said. \"In most cases, these are not profound

actions that were taken as the result of a policy. They are individual

actions that are part of the normal processes within the agencies.\"

D. Allan Bromley, the science adviser to President George H.W. Bush,

the current president's father, went further. Bromley, a physicist at

Yale, called the statement \"clearly\" politically motivated and said it

was made up of \"sweeping generalizations.\"

The Union of Concerned Scientists denied that it had political

motives in releasing the documents as the 2004 presidential race

began to take clear shape. The organization's report, Gottfried

said, had taken a year to prepare, much longer than planned, and

was released as soon as it was ready. \"I don't see it as a partisan

issue at all,\" said Russell Train, an administrator of the Environmental

Protection Agency under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

\"If it becomes that way, I think it's because the White House chooses

to make it a partisan issue.\" The letter was signed by luminaries

from a broad array of disciplines. Among the Nobel winners are

David Baltimore, Leon Lederman, Norman Ramsey, Harold Varmus

and Steven Weinberg. Signatories and the union's report can be

found at www.ucsusa.org.

The New York Times

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