I'm only addressing health issues right now, as those are the ones I've researched most thoroughly; I have posted to the List numerous (good) studies supporting this/these positions (I have also posted opposing views/studies where knowledge is not certain -- of course, in medicine information is always altering practice, but to the best of my knowledge what I've posted is current). Right now I do not have the time to find prior posts, as I'm supposed to be packing, but I should be able to find them after I've moved.
--- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <most snipped> > No Child Left Behind > Faith-Based Initiatives > AIDS Fund > Partial-Birth Abortion Ban > Promotion of Abstinence-Based Education > School Vouchers for DC > > To just use examples of policies promulgated by the > current administration. Re: that last sentence: This administration has been on the incorrect side of multiple health issues, the first of which it had to reverse itself from because of overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary: Increase allowable arsenic in drinking water [reversed] Relax acceptable lead levels in children's blood Increase allowable air pollution (particulate & non-, IIRC) Removed from official health websites the information that condom use reduces transmission of HIV (I believe this have since been restored) Advocating specifically 'prayer to Jesus' as therapy for PMS/menstrual cramps Forbidding saving of the mother's life in favor of the unborn, if the mother's life is at stake (unless they've amended that since last I looked?) As for endangered species (OK, not precisely a health issue, except obliquely - think 'taxol from CA yew trees'): "If we are saying that the loss of species in and of itself is inherently bad -- I don't think we know enough about how the world works to say that." -Interior Department Assistant Secretary Craig Manson, appointed by President Bush to position overseeing the Endangered Species Act, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 12, 2003 Debbi __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
