Jump to full article: Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer, 2007-07-11
Author: SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD
Intro: Tuesday's testimony of former U.S. surgeon generals has added a new dimension of understanding of the administration's concerted efforts to suppress, deny and pervert science to its own ends. President Bush's advisers are as eager to distort reality about human health as they are in other fields.
Dr. Richard Carmona said that as surgeon general from 2002 to 2006, he was censored . . .
We have seen the administration's arrogant disdain for independent science on environmental matters. But it is embarrassing to have a surgeon general so thoroughly squelched in a country where one of them, Luther Terry, had used the truth to help set billions of people worldwide free from tobacco addiction and another, C. Everett Koop, sounded the alarm about AIDS.
Bush has nominated as Carmona's permanent successor Dr. James Holsinger Jr., who wrote in 1991 that homosexual sex is unnatural and unhealthy. The choice is absurd. We'd be better off without a surgeon general than with one willing to rubber stamp ideology as science.
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