<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Feb 9 2008, 03:52 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Unfortunately, scientific findings (in the USA) for 60+ years have been infected by politics. That'd be when the atomic scientists got a "conscience" and tried to influence policy over whether they should be used.
That giant sucking sound is the taxpayers' money going into the pockets of allegedly independent scientists and the allegedly independent institutions they work for.
You don't see the conflict between these two statements?
"whether the policies put in place are a transparent attempt to help your buddies"
and
"scientific findings by allegedly independent federal agencies have been infected by politics"
So you'd rather have transparent (or not) policies put in place to help Gore's buddies (about 55% of the scientists). It's a pretty transparent appeal to a certain base of a certain party.
If you want to respond to this, do so in my blog please.</div>
I'd appreciate it if you didn't ascribe opinions and viewpoints to me that I haven't expressed. Thanks.
However, to keep this back on topic, perhaps I should mention that I was thinking specifically about the FDA when I made that second statement.