When did breast cancer become a "left-wing" issue?
Dana
----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:14:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Kerry's record in Senate
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- "Larry C. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Say what. Claiming that the group is some vague
> commie,
> anti-capitalist group is not refuting the charges.
> All these different
> claimshave been adequately documented (see the
> footnotes). Try again
> monkey boy.
>
> larry
Did you reply to the Gorelick issue? Does this mean
you agree she did build a wall?
If I were really a right wing nut I'd say she built
that wall to cover Clintons China missile scandal. But
I'm not so I won't J
OK, I went back and tried to read the document. It
focuses way too much on politics rather then science.
I came across the reference to the aluminum tubes for
the centrifuge and the breast cancer issue we
discussed last week. This is pure left wing stuff. If
you want to pick a specific item with references I'll
debate that but to hand me a DNC play book and say
dispute everything, I don't have the time.
As for the monkey boy, how old are you?
As for your left wing group:
By any real scientific yardstick, the Union of
Concerned Scientists has a lousy track record. Their
predictions are often laughably, and sometimes
tragically, wrong. A few examples:
In 1997 UCS organized a petition that warned of
"global warming" and advocated U.S. ratification of
the Kyoto treaty. It was signed by 1,600 scientists,
and so UCS declared that "the scientific community has
reached a consensus." But when a counter-petition that
questioned this so-called "consensus" was signed by
more than 17,000 other scientists, UCS declared it a
"deliberate attempt to deceive the scientific
community with misinformation."
UCS invested significant resources in "a multiyear
effort to protect Bacillus thuringiensis, a valuable
natural pesticide, by bringing high visibility to a
preliminary report on the toxic effect of transgenic
[biotech] corn pollen on the Monarch Butterfly."
Unfortunately for them, both the USDA and the EPA have
concluded that Bt corn is only a threat to the
crop-devastating insects it's supposed to kill.
Based, we suppose, on some "science" or other, UCS's
Margaret Mellon predicted in 1999 that American
farmers would reduce their planting of genetically
enhanced seeds in the year 2000, saying it "probably
represents a turning point." What happened? Just the
reverse. Planting of biotech crops has increased in
2000, 2001 and 2002 -- and shows no sign of slowing
down.
In 1980 UCS predicted that the earth would soon run
out of fossil fuels. "It is now abundantly clear," the
group wrote, "that the world has entered a period of
chronic energy shortages." Oops! Known reserves of
oil, coal and natural gas have never been higher, and
show every sign of increasing.
To improve fuel efficiency, UCS argues for lighter
tires on SUVs. But lighter tires are blamed -- even by
Ralph's Nader's Public Citizen -- for tread
separation. 148 deaths and more than 500 injuries were
attributed to tread separation in Firestone tires
alone.
UCS apparently hasn't learned from its many, many
mistakes. But if at first you don't succeed, scare,
scare again.
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