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<blockquote data-quote="flounder" data-source="post: 218417" data-attributes="member: 3519"><p>o.k. mema, here is a short one for you :shock: </p><p></p><p></p><p>Wed, May. 03, 2006</p><p>`Sound science' isn't just a catch phrase - it's a real persuader</p><p>By Iris Kuo</p><p>Knight Ridder Newspapers</p><p>WASHINGTON - The Bush administration, senators, industrialists and farmers repeatedly invoke the term "sound science" to delay or deep-six policies they oppose and dismiss criticism of those they favor. </p><p></p><p>The administration has waved it at such diverse issues as global warming, beef imports, air pollution and arsenic in drinking water. Last Thursday, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta used the phrase to slow a congressional bid to raise the U.S. passenger vehicle mileage standard. "An administrative process based on sound science" should precede any change, Mineta said. </p><p></p><p>No one, however, is sure what "sound science" means. </p><p></p><p>The phrase has more to do with anti-regulatory lobbying than with laboratory results, said Donald Kennedy, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration and now the editor in chief of the influential magazine Science. </p><p></p><p>"Sound science is whatever somebody likes," Kennedy said. "It's essentially a politically useful term, but it doesn't have any normative meaning whatsoever. My science is sound science, and the science of my enemies is junk science." .......snip.........end</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/14492214.htm" target="_blank">http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/14492214.htm</a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/14492214.htm" target="_blank">http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/ne ... 492214.htm</a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14492214.htm" target="_blank">http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14492214.htm</a></p><p></p><p></p><p> :help: </p><p></p><p></p><p>TSS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flounder, post: 218417, member: 3519"] o.k. mema, here is a short one for you :shock: Wed, May. 03, 2006 `Sound science' isn't just a catch phrase - it's a real persuader By Iris Kuo Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - The Bush administration, senators, industrialists and farmers repeatedly invoke the term "sound science" to delay or deep-six policies they oppose and dismiss criticism of those they favor. The administration has waved it at such diverse issues as global warming, beef imports, air pollution and arsenic in drinking water. Last Thursday, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta used the phrase to slow a congressional bid to raise the U.S. passenger vehicle mileage standard. "An administrative process based on sound science" should precede any change, Mineta said. No one, however, is sure what "sound science" means. The phrase has more to do with anti-regulatory lobbying than with laboratory results, said Donald Kennedy, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration and now the editor in chief of the influential magazine Science. "Sound science is whatever somebody likes," Kennedy said. "It's essentially a politically useful term, but it doesn't have any normative meaning whatsoever. My science is sound science, and the science of my enemies is junk science." .......snip.........end [url=http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/14492214.htm]http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/14492214.htm[/url] [url=http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/14492214.htm]http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/ne ... 492214.htm[/url] [url=http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14492214.htm]http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14492214.htm[/url] :help: TSS [/QUOTE]
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