http://cosmicvariance.com/2005/09/01/more-politics-in-your-science-plan-b/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:16:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://cosmicvariance.com/2005/09/01/more-politics-in-your-science-plan-b/#comment-2680 They Saw It Coming: They Looked Away | Cosmic Variance Fri, 02 Sep 2005 05:54:28 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=190#comment-2680 [...] mentioning, among other things, the recent postponing by the FDA of the morning-after pill (despite it passing all saftety tests), as described recently by Risa, and… The United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa accused the Bush administration of responsibility for a condom shortage in Uganda — the result of the administration’s evangelical Christian agenda of “abstinence.” When the chief of the Bureau of Justice Statistics in the Justice Department was ordered by the White House to delete its study that African-Americans and other minorities are subject to racial profiling in police traffic stops and he refused to buckle under, he was forced out of his job. When the Army Corps of Engineers’ chief contracting oversight analyst objected to a $7 billion no-bid contract awarded for work in Iraq to Halliburton (the firm at which Vice President Cheney was formerly CEO), she was demoted despite her superior professional ratings. At the National Park Service, a former Cheney aide, a political appointee lacking professional background, drew up a plan to overturn past environmental practices and prohibit any mention of evolution while allowing sale of religious materials through the Park Service. [...] [...] mentioning, among other things, the recent postponing by the FDA of the morning-after pill (despite it passing all saftety tests), as described recently by Risa, and… The United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa accused the Bush administration of responsibility for a condom shortage in Uganda — the result of the administration’s evangelical Christian agenda of “abstinence.” When the chief of the Bureau of Justice Statistics in the Justice Department was ordered by the White House to delete its study that African-Americans and other minorities are subject to racial profiling in police traffic stops and he refused to buckle under, he was forced out of his job. When the Army Corps of Engineers’ chief contracting oversight analyst objected to a $7 billion no-bid contract awarded for work in Iraq to Halliburton (the firm at which Vice President Cheney was formerly CEO), she was demoted despite her superior professional ratings. At the National Park Service, a former Cheney aide, a political appointee lacking professional background, drew up a plan to overturn past environmental practices and prohibit any mention of evolution while allowing sale of religious materials through the Park Service. [...]

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