Trust Your Leaders
Posted by Ray @ 1:38 pmA government agency plans to give $970, a camcorder and some clothes to poor families, so that it can test the effects of pesticides on their children. Sound like something out of a conspiracy theorist’s recruitment brochure?
Actually, it really happened.
Last November, Stephen Johnson, the Environmental Protection Agency’s acting administrator, thankfully cancelled the plan. “I am committed to ensuring that EPA’s [sic] research is based on sound science with the highest ethical standards”, he said.
It’s so heartening to see that some people in power still adhere to basic human decency. How wonderful it is that politics have been put aside, and decisions have been made based upon what’s actually fair and true!
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday canceled a controversial study using children to measure the effect of pesticides after Democrats said they would block Senate confirmation of the agency’s new head.
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Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, had joined with Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, in demanding the study’s cancellation as a condition for confirming Johnson’s nomination by President Bush.
Yes, America is truly an enlightened country, where ethics and equality are paramo– wait a minute, say what?
I wonder if the people over there are even bothered by this.