Here’s another good one - this article is from about a year ago. It talks about The religious fanaticism of the George W. Bush administration… their blatent disregard for facts of science in favor of ancient dogma. They use religious rhetoric to counter new scientific breakthroughs, like stem cell research. The article also goes into the whole HPV thing in women ad how Mr. Bush wanted to encourage abstinence rather than allow the vaccine. Read for yourself…
In case you’re still not sure just how destructive the Bush administration has become to this country, you need to read Michael Specter’s piece in the March 13 issue of the New Yorker magazine.
It’s enough to give you the willies.
Specter documents how the Bush people have stacked the Food and Drug Administration with fanatics who regularly trump science to advance their own religious beliefs. It reads like a modern-day Galileo being persecuted by the Catholic Church because he maintained Earth was round.
Although Specter cites several examples of religious beliefs thwarting scientific advances by key appointees to the FDA and other divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services (Tommy Thompson’s old department), one of the most egregious has been to block a vaccine designed to thwart cervical cancer.