Here's a shocker. Loven apparently very concerned about lack of dissenting voices on bioethics panel.
"February 28, 2004 Saturday
SECTION: WASHINGTON DATELINE
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HEADLINE: Bush Replaces Members of Bioethics Panel
BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN; Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
President Bush on Friday replaced two members of a panel that advises him on issues such as cloning and stem cell research, drawing criticism that he is stacking the bioethics group with ideologically friendly members.
Elizabeth Blackburn, a cell biologist at the University California San Francisco and former president of the American Society for Cell Biology, and William F. May, a medical ethicist and retired professor at Southern Methodist University, were dismissed from the President's Council on Bioethics.
Bush created the council in 2001, replacing a similar commission that advised President Clinton, to tackle issues including embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia and assisted reproduction. He named its 17 members to two-year terms in January 2002.
Elizabeth Marincola, executive director of the American Society for Cell Biology, a nonprofit group representing basic biomedical researchers, said Blackburn and May were often in the minority on the council as they provided dissenting views.
***Later Loven goes on to hammer home her reason for writing the piece:***
"Blackburn told The Washington Post that she believed she was let go because her political views do not match those of the council's director, University of Chicago ethicist Leon Kass.
It's not the first time the White House has been criticized for wanting to hear mostly from friendly voices.
Just last week, a private organization contended in a report that the Bush administration distorts scientific findings and seeks to manipulate experts' advice to avoid information that runs counter to its political beliefs. The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the complaint signed by a wide assorted of prominent scientists, including Nobel Prize winners and recipients of the National Medal of Science.
*** Can't you just sense her outrage at this partisan behavior? Of course, she gives ample space to left wingers (translation: serves as Dem mouthpiece) like Ted Kennedy who says:
""The American people deserve the right science, not right wing ideology, on critical issues facing their health," he said in a statement. "By firing two of the committee's most distinguished members, the administration is choosing once again the most divisive and ideological course, instead of seeking consensus."
*** Where is all this talk of consensus when Dems run the executive branch?
-T
December 17, 2003 Wednesday
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HEADLINE: Bush: U.S. to Continue Leading in Flight
***Mean Bush crushes hopes of space geeks.***
BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN; Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C.
BODY:
President Bush pledged on Wednesday that America will keep leading the world in flight, but he disappointed space buffs who had hoped he would announce a bold new mission for U.S. explorers.
...Bush did not provide specifics, snuffing the hopes of space buffs that he might use the anniversary to announce a new mission of exploration beyond the space shuttle and international space station.
*** Bush breaking hearts everywhere...***