Posted on 11/03/2009 12:00:15 PM PST by neverdem
Regardless of your tribal affiliations, were you cautiously optimistic when our new president promised to "restore science to its rightful place" in the formulation of public policy? Were you embarrassed by the prior occupant's politicization of issues that should have been decided on a more scientific basis? Did you assume that Barack Obama would surround himself with apolitical science advisors unencumbered by embarrassing anti-science baggage and free of culture-war axes to grind?
To paraphrase a once famous mayor of New York - So how's he doing so far?
You're probably aware that the H1N1 swine flu vaccine supply has fallen dangerously short of the level required to protect the most vulnerable among us. In the spring Federal officials predicted that as many as 120 million doses would be available by now, as opposed to the 16 million doses that actually arrived. Flu vaccine is tricky to make under the best of circumstances, but there are scientifically safe and proven ways to stretch supplies...
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You're probably aware that a mercury-containing preservative called thimerosal was removed from children's vaccines in 2001 to mollify activists promoting the theory that thimerosal causes autism. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there was then and is still now no scientific evidence linking thimerosal to autism. Despite numerous peer-reviewed studies as well as the empirical fact that autism rates have not plunged since the 2001 thimerosal ban, as one would expect if the preservative were a leading cause of this heart breaking illness, the administration recently made a decision that further reduced the supply of H1N1 vaccine. It switched our country's emergency H1N1 vaccine order from multi-dose to single-dose vials, causing production chain backups as vendors scrambled to accommodate the last-minute switch. Why the change? Because single-dose vials contain a lower concentration of thimerosal...
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearmarkets.com ...
This article is a good start, but there’s more: Global Warming has proven to be a hoax, because earth has been COOLING since 1998 despite increased greenhouse gas. Even if you hop on the re-named Climate Change bandwagon, there has been NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF that any climate change is man-caused.
Every faux scientist that has pushed this crap so far has had a political benefit to gain and perhaps a fat $ grant to win. This White House declared the issue closed and even equates skeptics of being “just like holocaust deniers”.
This guy is either an idiot or evil, and pushes faux science in order to create panic so he can come to the rescue. Hmm. Like Reichstag?
Academic bias has seen to it that scientific studies are funded on the basis of political correctness.
If your study counters the socialist talking points on global warming, you are seen as “the enemy”.
Al Gore would not shy from a debate if he had the facts. They would not deny the very EXISTENCE of all dissenters in the scientific community if pro-global warming theory people had the facts to counter the research.
Too many examples of data being fudged or even supressed when someone else wants to investigate/review/repeat man-made global warming studies.
I’ll believe that Obama is truly serious about science when his administration starts putting out for public perusal the numerous scientific studies that show that homosexuals aren’t “born gay” or “born that way.”
IOW, he’s not doing so well, concerning “how’s he doing so far?”
The lib liars give the term “political science” a whole new meaning.
I was always under the impession that widespread tobacco use wiped out all the earths’ population about 180 yrs ago. Ya telling me it didn’t? Shazam Barney!!!
Not to mention gov't grant money! ;-)
There are so many studies that link Thimerosal to Autism that I can not link them all .....
Thimerosal is in the flu vaccinations and the Hep B ones that have 3 shots in first few months of baby’s life. So, as the drug companies HAVE taken thimerosal out of some vaccines, and they were given a two year window, I heard...they upped the number of required vaccines, and started recommending flu vaccinations to the pregnant women and newborns which had the (suprise!) thimerosal and other toxins in them......
Common sense tells me that they are poisoning our children...Not only do they make billions off mandatory vaccinations....they make billions on the drugs to treat all the autoimmune diseases that are caused by the vaccines and the kids who have neurological damage—all caused by the toxins in the vaccines....
We have the most vaccinated kids on earth and they are also the most neurological damaged children on earth and you tell me there is no connection when the only difference in children is the massive amt. of vaccinations being forced on pregnant women and newborns. Disgusting.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166102.php
Obama’s alleged lack of opinion on when life begins betrays a preference for politics over science.
Sadly, the global warming rule of politically correct science operates in all areas of science including medicine now. It is going to slow progress in science big time.
It’s a lucrative field of study IF you echo the right talking points.
PS the founder of the Weather Channel (no longer involved) speaks out against the myths of man-made global warming.
To those who insist that man intervene to control the global climate, what is the optimal temperature for the planet Earth and which society should get it?
If we are going to designate the “correct” climate and strive to control global temperatures to arrive at it, what is “correct”? Greenland a prosperous growing land? Cooler temperatures at the equator?
Who decides?
Too much of the legislation is about redistributing wealth to the third world because the evil West uses too much of the world’s resources and other nations have a “smaller carbon footprint”. Never mind that none of it will CHANGE climate temperatures. Or that Al Gore and his sponsors will get to skim off the top in the carbon credit exchange system.
Antarctic Ice Melt at Lowest Levels in Satellite Era
btt
Opening paragraph of this badly written and ill thought out screed is just silly.
Thimerosal in Vaccines Questions and Answers
Take the tin foil hat off first. It was updated last 07/10/2009.
...there was then and is still now no scientific evidence linking thimerosal to autism. Despite numerous peer-reviewed studies as well as the empirical fact that autism rates have not plunged since the 2001 thimerosal ban, as one would expect if the preservative were a leading cause of this heart breaking illness, the administration recently made a decision that further reduced the supply of H1N1 vaccine. It switched our country's emergency H1N1 vaccine order from multi-dose to single-dose vials, causing production chain backups as vendors scrambled to accommodate the last-minute switch. Why the change? Because single-dose vials contain a lower concentration of thimerosal...Thanks neverdem.
25 micrograms of mercury per 0.5 mL is 5000 times the IDLH limit.
There is still Hg is vaccines.
http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/safetyavailability/vaccinesafety/ucm096228#t3
Updated 3/14/2008
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