" The Environmental Protection Agency disclosed last week that it had revised — stood on their head is more like it — procedures it has used for 25 years to set standards for air pollutants like soot and lead. The administration said the change will streamline decision making. Perhaps it will. It will also have the further effect of decreasing the role of science in policy making while increasing the influence of the agency’s political appointees.
This is disheartening, but not surprising. Whether the issue is birth control or global warming or clean air, this administration has already acquired a special place in regulatory history for the audacity with which it has manipulated or muzzled science (and in some cases individual scientists) that might discomfit its industrial allies or interfere with its political agenda. "

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#1: Glasova: 2 (min. 3) (Podaci o autoru dostupni clanovima CONNECT-a) 2006-12-12 08:20:33 Quote: The administration said the change will streamline decision making. Perhaps it will. It will also have the further effect of decreasing the role of science in policy making while increasing the influence of the agency’s political appointees.     Gee, ovo zvuèi kao da opisuje administraciju EU

#2: (Podaci o autoru dostupni clanovima CONNECT-a) 2006-12-12 12:44:12 na #1:    Mislim da se ne radi o istim stvarima - u slucaju Amerike se ne radi o birokratizaciji ili pretjeranim regulativama, vec se u ovom tekstu fokusira na manipuliranje znanstvenih cinjenica od strane industrijskih i ideoloskih lobija.

#3: (Podaci o autoru dostupni clanovima CONNECT-a) 2006-12-12 21:13:56 Na #2:    Nisam ni rekao da se radi o istim stvarima. Naprotiv, znam da se ne radi o istim stvarima - u sluèaju Amerike barem netko ima korist od cijele prièe

#4: Glasova: 1 (min. 3) (Podaci o autoru dostupni clanovima CONNECT-a) 2006-12-12 21:15:59 Na #3: Oops, to sam bio ja na roditeljskom raèunalu - nisam primijetio da nisam logiran kao ja.