In the largest study of chemical exposure ever conducted on human beings, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that most American children and adults were carrying in their bodies dozens of pesticides and toxic compounds used in consumer products, many of them linked to potential health threats.
Full story here.
But once again, the Bush administration valiantly fights their enemy, science and truth, with disinformation from CDC appointees:
The CDC's Gerberding said that "for the vast majority" of the 148 chemicals in the report, "we have no evidence of health effects."
Who is Dr. Julie Gerberding?
According to Wikipedia she was appointed head of the CDC in 2003. Survey says: Appointed by Bush to lie.
Back to the article:
Many toxicologists and environmental scientists disagree.
Are we shocked? No? Neither am I. Wherever science rears its ugly head, our champion white knights from Bushco will be there to shout it down.
Studies of animals, and in some cases people, suggest that most of the compounds can affect the brain, hormones, reproductive system or the immune system, or that they are linked to cancer. "These are some bad actors," Burke said.
Many of the compounds have not been studied sufficiently to know what happens with chronic exposure to low doses. "No evidence of health effects does not imply that they are not harmful," Paulson said. "It just means we don't know one way or another."
So, we have an administration with a very long history of bad science to cover up for their own corporate, anti-environmental needs. Now, the one place Americans are supposed to go for information about disease and health safety is lying directly to the American people.
As far as I know, this is the first time Bush has expanded his manipulation of scientific information to the CDC, but he's already infiltrated the rest.
Our government has put the nail in the coffin as far as ignoring science. Unfortunately, this will be relegated to the back pages.