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  •  Seven years isn't much time, particularly when the (none / 0)

    first three will be wasted on the Bush admin running things.

    by mvr on Sat Feb 11, 2006 at 06:03:07 PM PDT

    •  Many speakers alluded to this concern (none / 1)

      ...the politicking of science is so bad, that until we change Congress, there is no way to enact urgent policy measures now. But they also said that it's partly the scientists fault and that they have to responsibility to communicate to largely unscientific, more idealistic public.   Ironically, they said there is even an unusual opportunity to joing the evangelicals who argued for global climate change policies.  

      Chris Mooney's book, "The Republican Assualt On Science", details what a new Congress can do and other ideas for what can be done; including passing Rush Holt's and Henry Waxman's bill, the Science Integrity Act, reestablishing the Office  of Technology Assessment (OTA) and repealing GOP measures,like the Data Quality Act, which intentionally prevent key scientific evidence in the science policy maker.

      Also, I met Rick Piltz, who started an NGO Global Climage Watch to alert public of the GOPs efforts to distort science policy.  Piltz is the whistleblower who alerted news that Bu$hCo ordered him not to include any reference of Clinton/Gore's National Assessment Report into any Congressional programs on climate policy (it detailed ominous warnings on the impact of global warming).

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      by Knightrider on Sat Feb 11, 2006 at 06:35:32 PM PDT

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      •  Thanks for the additional good info! (none / 0)

        As another thread commented, there are so many outrages going on at once that it is hard to keep any one of them before the public.  I wish Katrina were still front burner -- it rolled so much of the corruption, malfeasance and corruption into one package.  Needed troops in Iraq, lack of any preparedness for any real domestic disasters, Climate change worsening threats, poverty and neglect of the worse off while sending subsidies to the better off, racism.  

        by mvr on Sat Feb 11, 2006 at 08:16:57 PM PDT

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