Human Nature

New Yorker by Elizabeth Kolbert | May. 22, 2007 (Opinion)

Six years into the Bush Administration, it's basically the ant wars all over again. At key agencies, a disregard for inconvenient evidence seems today to be a prerequisite. A memo prepared by the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in mid-March, for example, revealed that officials of the White House Council on Environmental Quality had made more than a hundred and eighty changes to a status report on global warming, ... Full Story »

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 by Michael D. Lowe - May. 23, 2007

On the contrary Rachel Carson was and is one of the heroes of the environmental movement. No one is the scientific community advocates the resumed use of DDT. This is a terrible chemical & it's effects on the ecosystem are well documented & explicitly spelled out in the article. The article is well sourced & factual. The current administration's penchant for ignoring & warping scientific data has been extensively reported in many publication including the OMB own in house investigations. It's a good quick read.

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