Mr. Milloy holds a B.A. in Natural Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Health Sciences in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Baltimore, and a Master of Laws from the Georgetown University Law Center.

The website is: http://junkscience.com/

Enjoy!

Here is a web link to the unedited draft version of the Gerberding testimony (it just came through on a listserv I subsribe to:

http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/pdf/gerberding.pdf

Spanish-American War.

Failing that, the War of 1812 (a war of New Yorker imperialism, although it failed miserably).

I’m pretty sure the Indians would say the founding of Jamestown would be a good indicator of an initial point of time in the whole start-of-empire thing.

Dr. Gerberding, speaking Wednesday at a luncheon hosted by the Atlanta Press Club, dismissed as “ridiculous” such allegations.

“This is not an issue of cover up related to climate change and health,” she said.”

Don’t know how to help you there. Open a newspaper?

A fine illustration of the hysteria. Thank you.

>>> This is what puzzles me about your comments on the
>>> whole GW issue. The scientists in the relevant fields are
>>> the ones saying it’s probably going to get really bad.
>>> The ones saying it’s all hysteria and everything will be
>>> fine are the useless politicians.

If that’s what you think you see, so be it. I learned a while ago not to even argue on the topic anymore. People on BOTH sides of the issue have utterly self blinded themselves and discussion is fruitless.

And I’m just too tired at this point in my life. So, OK: there’s a big tsunami approaching. Great. Run with it, dude, and more power to ya. Have fun with that.

>>> I understand where you’re coming from – I used to be a
>>> Republican too, but I stopped voting for them when I
>>> realized how far they’d strayed from their roots.

I was never a Republican. I was never a member of any Party and never will be. I saw thorugh that BS before I could vote. Why is it if I fail to say anything short of “OH NOES! THE GOP AM NAZIIIIS!” people think I am or was Republican?

>>>I figure there’s pretty much no difference between the
>>> two parties.

Exactly. That’s why I and an astonishing number of other people I personally know are planning retirements outside the USA. There is absolutely no one left here in the political arena on the side of decent, hardworking citizens. At least in some of the world’s retirement hot spots they bend over backwards to attract me for my potential working capital. It’s much more symbiotic and flat out HONEST than anything in this dippy La La Land.

In retirement I can pay taxes to support Ted Kennedy’s gin blossoms and Bush’s war and another corrupt Big Dig somewhere where billions of dollars buys you multiton concrete slabs falling off of tunnel ceilins and crushing cars.

Or I can party with Costa Rican whores on the beach every evening. Guess who wins?

Disemboweling a science report for political reasons is an outrage. I don’t care what the conservative apologists have posted here, it’s an outrage and more.

I’m not sure what the word is for the next level above outrage, but whatever it is, it would apply, since this is far from the first time the Bush administration has done this. His muzzling of US reps to global warming conferences is another example. And there are many more.

Why is Bush doing this? The reason is simple. He’s a conservative Republican. The conservative Republicans were hijacked by the Religious Right during the 1980s and 1990s.

Almost all conservative Republicans are now Christian fundamentalists. In fact it’s one of the basic requirements for membership. Christian fundamentalists hate science and have been doing everything in their power to tear science to shreds and replace it with their “faith-based” education systems.

Heading up this effort is Bush II, who was quoted in Washington, DC on 12/19/2000 as saying “If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” The type of dictatorship Bush and his cronies want is a theocracy. Don’t believe me? Google on “Council for National Policy” and then get back to me.

Not only is this administration a threat to science, our civil liberties, and the rest of what the Constitution has protected for more than two centuries, it’s also the most corrupt I’ve ever seen.

I was in Washington, DC on August 9, 1974, when Nixon resigned. I told my wife “Hey, that’s a nice birthday present! The head of the most corrupt administration this country has ever seen is gone!” Little did I imagine that starting in 2001 I’d see an administration so corrupt it made the Nixon boys look like tyros.

Then there’s the Bush anti-science agenda. Wait, we already touched on that!

Pardon me, but where the hell did you get that assumption from? It smells of a straw man argument to me. Might I remind you that as a ‘denier’, I’m not the one whose answer to every question is ‘the debate is over’.

Encouraging the use of condoms and contraception for those who are unwilling to make the best choice (abstinence) catches more people who may have simply started having sex with no understanding that there are simpler ways for them to protect themselves. And if you think that level of ignorance only exists in “broken homes”, you’re deluding yourself.

Mr Bad Ast is outraged because of many things about Bush and one point is he thinks abstinence should not be taught – instead we should spend millions of dollars on teaching kids that it is ok if they want to have sex and just use a condom …
btw most of these kids inclined to have kids come from broken homes and don’t give a crap about what you tell them.. i.e they know about condoms – they just dont feel like using it — (there’s get more pleasure without it — are the exact words) Their moral values need to be changed and a proper abstinence programs may do just that .

Spend money on education = math, english science NOT sex, filth, and immorality or welfare.

You are therefore advocating ignorance to the obvious that every adult knows – DON”T have sex – you wont get anything..

Oh, that’s right – because parents don’t know everything. Has it occurred to you that some parents might not know everything about sex either? Crazy, but true!

You need to check your reactionary crap and save your homohating for a relevant thread. This discussion has nothing at all to do with homosexuality. It has to do with protecting kids (and adults) from ignorance.

I’m just a run of the mill Christian. I try to align my morals with the New Testament, and I don’t try to force it on others, and neither do I judge anyone else’s sins worse than my own. “Christians” who act like A-holes, especially like the idiots who protest at the funerals of fallen soldiers, are not following the Bible.

I just don’t see any legal basis for anyone here being upset for Bush and the separation of church and state issue. If the law made it more clear, then that would be fine. But it doesn’t.

That is simply incorrect. Comprehensive sex education programs have been shown to reduce unwanted pregnancies and the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. Abstinence-only programs have been shown to have no effect on either, even the opposite effect in some cases.

Ok well let’s just say, in my opinion, that some of your blogsite links and associated rhetoric would not exactly place you as part of the Christian “moderate” way

Nothing.
Don’t spread disease, dont catch diseases .. – don’t have sex ..use a condom if you really have to…
It wont work – these kids having kids are too stupid (or their parents are too stupid) to listen.

Absitnence is the only way kids wont get in trouble — keep feeding them trash and they’ll end up in the gutter.

“I teach university astronomy, not public policy or political science. I used to refer students here so that they could learn about common misconceptions about astronomy. As much as some of my colleagues believe they have a bully pulpit in their classrooms, I have a strict policy of keeping politics (and religion) out of my classroom as much as possible.”

As a university student who does study political science let me say that I’m glad I don’t have professors like you. Most of my professors understand that I am quite capable of thinking for myself and will frequently refer me to resources that may have political asides. This includes non-political science professors. They include a disclaimer that they do not endorse content unrelated to the course. When Paul Krugman who authored one of my economics textbooks, came to my university to speak on health care, my Econ professor told us of the event and informed us fairly that Krugman is a strong liberal politically (as opposed to economically). My professors frequently let me make up my own mind about the politics associated with certain resources. As for “Bush Derangment Sydrome”, I think maybe you should continue your education and get a couple of refresher classes on rhetoric under your belt. I’m sure staff can get tuition waivers.

Also, I have personal experience when it comes to the matter of abstinence-only education. I used to live in an entire society where abstinence-only was emphasized. It doesn’t work, period. The other people commenting here have the statistics. I have the anecdotes. I’m not sure if you are in favor of abstinence only education, or simply in favor of abstinence. However, the sex-ed courses that are not abstinence-only always emphasize abstinence as the single most effective method of disease and pregnancy prevention. I haven’t seen a single sex-ed program that doesn’t stress abstinence and partner permanence and limitation as the best methods. They simply have the audacity- the gall, to give young folk knowledge about what else is out there. Then again, we all know where you stand on letting people reach their own conclusions. When would you like me to drink the hemlock?