In response to Tony Mazzaschi's Boston Globe article I, as person who has
taken a few oaths of office, including Federal, State and County oaths, I do
remember that I was to defend the Constitution of the United States; I do
not recall any oath that asked for loyalty to a particular person.

If I am missing something, please let me know.

Bernie Barber

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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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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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