bubbly and lovely: i'm too poor for therapy.
been there and back again. too many thoughts and opinions and hormones get me in trouble.
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9.19.2002
he's just so damn transparent
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SEEKS SCIENCE ADVICE TO MATCH BUSH VIEWS
from The Washington Post, Sept. 17.
The Bush administration has begun a broad restructuring of the scientific
advisory committees that guide federal policy in areas such as patients'
rights and public health, eliminating some committees that were coming to
conclusions at odds with the president's views and in other cases replacing
members with handpicked choices.
In the past few weeks, the Department of Health and Human Services has
retired two expert committees before their work was complete. One had
recommended that the Food and Drug Administration expand its regulation of
the increasingly lucrative genetic testing industry, which has so far been
free of such oversight. The other committee, which was rethinking federal
protections for human research subjects, had drawn the ire of
administration supporters on the religious right, according to government
sources.
A third committee, which had been assessing the effects of environmental
chemicals on human health, has been told that nearly all of its members
will be replaced -- in several instances by people with links to the
industries that make those chemicals. One new member is a California
scientist who helped defend Pacific Gas and Electric Co. against the real-
life Erin Brockovich.
The changes are among the first in a gradual restructuring of the system
that funnels expert advice to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G.
Thompson.
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