[maryz]

Unbelievably, Clinton signed it; well, it was part of a "massive" act, and maybe he didn't read it through; he was a very busy man.

[maryz]

Please ping anyone else you think may be interested.

[Tom D.]

Perhaps we will now be able to attack a regulation issued on account of lynx hair planted on our property by some U.S. Fish and Wildlife guy.

[Ben Ficklin]

bump

[Abogado]

>Others worry that agencies might become wary of putting
>out new information and making decisions for fear they
>will be questioned. “It could ultimately lead to less
> action by government,” Mr. Moulton of OMB Watch said."

Clinton must have been preoccupied when they slipped this past him.

[Yeti]

“The whole purpose is to suppress information from government dissemination,” said Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, the Ralph Nader group.

Now, talk about bad form. Being against this really shows where they are coming from, and that they want academic and scientific fraud protected and empowered.

I would think Ralph Nader would want the manufacture and dissemination of bad data suppressed for the same reasons he would want the manufacture and dissemination of bad automobiles and other consumer goods suppressed. But maybe his extortion firm needs bad data to what they do.

How will they phrase this in front of the media? "We need bad data to make responsible descisions about ..." No, wait a minute, "Incorrect studies are necessary for the successful ...." Hmmmm. "Save the Earth, disseminate bad data!" Can you see the protestors at WTO conferences carrying signs that say: "Lie to Me!"

I just don't know what I think.

[The Electrician]

But “If human health is potentially at risk, you can’t wait for all the facts to come in,” says Sean Moulton, senior policy analyst for OMB Watch, a liberal political watchdog group.

I think that he has just unwittingly given the green light for regulations limiting abortions based on preliminary reports of a link between abortion and breast cancer.

[boris]

Being in California, I think it a shame the law does not apply to state regulations.

[StriperSniper]

“A lot of people in the public-interest community are very concerned about attempts to limit how government uses the information it gets,”

They won't let us lie to them anymore! Waaaa!