Ervin - did you get Diane Wyshak's posts on Rader?  He seems untrustworthy
to say the least.  Don't know about Morales.  Be careful.  Ray
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From: "Ervin McCarthy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Science fights back


> To Ray and list:
> does anyone on the list have knowledge of Dr.Radar or Dr.Morales?  I am
> considering stem cell injection.  Any information would be helpful.
>
> Ervin
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> From: "rayilynlee" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 4:35 PM
> Subject: Science fights back
>
>
>> >From Saturday's Boston Globe.  He is a regular columnist.
>>
>> Tony Mazzaschi
>> AAMC
>>
>> Science starts to fight back
>> By Derrick Z. Jackson  |  March 24, 2007
>>
>> PRESIDENT BUSH'S war on science continues to disintegrate into unstable
>> elements.
>>
>> In a hearing before the Senate, Elias Zerhouni, the director of the
>> National
>> Institutes of Health, came out unequivocally for stem cell research. This
>> was big news. When Zerhouni was appointed by Bush in 2002, some
>> scientists
>> were concerned about how much the Johns Hopkins researcher who advocated
>> "unimpeded progress" in stem cell research had compromised himself to get
>> the job.
>>
>> In a New Yorker article in 2004, Stanford stem cell research pioneer Irv
>> Weissman recounted a meeting with Zerhouni and the NIH's stem cell task
>> force leader, James Battey. In the meeting, Weissman offered a scenario
>> of
>> using cell lines from diabetics to fight diabetes. Weissman was told it
>> could not happen under Bush's current rules. Battey later told The New
>> Yorker, "We're not policymakers. We inform policymakers. And the policy,
>> of
>> course, is not made solely based upon scientific input."
>>
>> This week, Zerhouni went against his boss and stood up for scientific
>> input.
>> "American science would be better served and the nation would be better
>> served if we let our scientists have access to more cell lines." He
>> compared
>> stem cell research in the 21st century to computers and the information
>> revolution of the 20th century. "It's basically the software of life that
>> we're talking about. . . . I think it is important for us not to fight
>> with
>> one hand tied behind our back."
>>
>> The White House, the one that has been saying it's waiting for "sound
>> science" for six years, responded like an ostrich. Spokesman Tony Fratto
>> said Bush has always exercised "careful and thoughtful deliberation" on
>> stem
>> cells. Fratto said, "The president has to balance the moral and
>> scientific
>> considerations of this nation."
>>
>> Even if Americans, by as high as a 68 percent to 27 percent difference in
>> a
>> 2006 Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, favor expanding federal funding
>> for
>> stem cell research.
>>
>> In another hearing before the House, Philip Cooney, the former chief of
>> staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, was grilled as
>> to
>> why he made hundreds of edits to climate reports. The edits downplayed
>> the
>> human role in global warming. Cooney was a lobbyist for the oil industry
>> (the "climate team leader" at the American Petroleum Institute) before
>> being
>> hired by Bush and became a lobbyist for Exxon Mobil after resigning,
>> following the first reports of his editing in 2005.
>>
>> The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by
>> Democrat
>> Henry Waxman of California, released scores of those edits this week. In
>> an
>> Environmental Protection Agency draft report on the environment, Cooney
>> deleted: "Climate change has global consequences for human health and the
>> environment."
>>
>> He also deleted a sentence that said, "The National Research Council
>> concluded that 'Greenhouse gases are accumulating in the atmosphere as a
>> result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and
>> subsurface
>> ocean temperatures to rise.' " He substituted in its place, "Some
>> activities
>> emit greenhouse gases and other substances that directly or indirectly
>> may
>> affect the balance of incoming and outgoing radiation, thereby
>> potentially
>> affecting climate on regional and global scales."
>>
>> Anyone fall asleep yet? That was Cooney's purpose.
>>
>> Waxman asked Cooney, "Aren't the edits you were making exactly the types
>> of
>> changes the Petroleum Institute would have made to these reports?"
>>
>> Cooney ultimately responded, "When I came to the White House, my
>> loyalties -- my sole loyalties -- were to the president and his
>> administration." Of course, that was really easy for him to say since
>> Republican causes have received about 80 percent of the $104 million in
>> political contributions from his pre-Bush and post-Bush industry, the oil
>> lobby, going back to the 2000 elections, according to the Center for
>> Responsive Politics.
>>
>> Unlike Zerhouni, Cooney is not a scientist. It was Cooney's political job
>> to
>> keep one hand tied behind America's back. He was just a Bush bully of
>> science. With real researchers putting up both their dukes, the bullies
>> seem
>> much more like 100-pound weaklings.
>>
>> Derrick Z. Jackson's e-mail address is [log in to unmask]
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
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