O NYT do dia 21 tem um artigo de Gardiner Harris e William Broad, comentando os "teary eyes"- olhos cheios de lágrimas - da comunidade científica diante da promessa explícita de Baraque quanto a "recolocar a ciência em seu devido lugar".
As tais lágrimas naturalmente se devem ao fato deles saberem precisamente qual é esse "devido lugar".
Transcrevo:
"On issues like stem cells, climate change, sex education and contraceptives, the Bush administration sought to tame and, in some cases, suppress the findings of many of the government’s scientific agencies. Besides discouraging scientific pronouncements that contradicted administration policies, officials insisted on tight control over even routine functions of key agencies."
“In the area of stem cell policy, there was a fair degree of discussion and one might even say tension between the views of the agency and the Bush administration,” said Dr. Raynard S. Kington, acting director of the National Institutes of Health."
[...]
"William Hubbard, an associate F.D.A. commissioner who retired in 2005, said top Bush administration officials were so reflexively opposed to nearly all regulations that even when consumer groups, industry associations, scientists and drug agency officials all agreed that new rules were needed, top officials rejected them. With less stringent oversight, agency officials will most likely soon issue new rules to prevent contamination of eggs and produce and to tighten the oversight of imports, Mr. Hubbard said."
As tais lágrimas naturalmente se devem ao fato deles saberem precisamente qual é esse "devido lugar".
Transcrevo:
"On issues like stem cells, climate change, sex education and contraceptives, the Bush administration sought to tame and, in some cases, suppress the findings of many of the government’s scientific agencies. Besides discouraging scientific pronouncements that contradicted administration policies, officials insisted on tight control over even routine functions of key agencies."
“In the area of stem cell policy, there was a fair degree of discussion and one might even say tension between the views of the agency and the Bush administration,” said Dr. Raynard S. Kington, acting director of the National Institutes of Health."
[...]
"William Hubbard, an associate F.D.A. commissioner who retired in 2005, said top Bush administration officials were so reflexively opposed to nearly all regulations that even when consumer groups, industry associations, scientists and drug agency officials all agreed that new rules were needed, top officials rejected them. With less stringent oversight, agency officials will most likely soon issue new rules to prevent contamination of eggs and produce and to tighten the oversight of imports, Mr. Hubbard said."