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It's not the answers that are biased, it's the questions. One of the eyebrow-raising statistics about the bisphenol A studies is the stark divergence in results, depending on who funded them. This striking difference in studies isn't unique to BPA. Washington Post. Opinion, 15 July 2008. [related story] [Registration Required]
Studies on chemical in plastics questioned. Despite more than 100 published studies by government scientists and university laboratories that have raised health concerns about a chemical compound that is central to the multibillion-dollar plastics industry, the FDA has deemed it safe largely because of two studies, both funded by an industry trade group. Washington Post. 27 April 2008. [related stories] [Registration Required]
Lawmakers fault FEMA on trailers. Democratic leaders of a House science subcommittee alleged yesterday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency manipulated scientific research into the potential danger posed by a toxic gas emitted in trailers still housing tens of thousands of survivors of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Washington Post. 29 January 2008. [Registration Required]
Bush aide blocked report. A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration's policy accomplishments. Washington Post. 29 July 2007. [Registration Required]
Ex-surgeon general says White House hushed him. Former surgeon general Richard H. Carmona yesterday accused the Bush administration of muzzling him on sensitive public health issues. Washington Post. 11 July 2007. [Registration Required]
FDA's user-fee habit. For the past 15 years, pharmaceutical companies have poured $2 billion into a program that helps finance the US FDA Administration, allowing the FDA to become one of the world's fastest drug-approval agencies. Now that influx of money is under fire. Washington Post. 3 April 2007. [Registration Required]
Climate researchers feeling heat from White House. Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. Washington Post. 6 April 2006. [related story] [Registration Required]
Chromium evidence buried, report says. Scientists working for the chromium industry withheld data about the metal's health risks while the industry campaigned to block strict new limits on the cancer-causing chemical. Washington Post. 24 February 2006. [related stories] [Registration Required]
WASA Whistle-Blower Wins Vindication, Reinstatement. A water quality manager fired by the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority in 2003 was ordered reinstated by a judge who said she was improperly terminated after warning federal authorities about excessive lead in the District's tap water. Washington Post. 3 November 2005. [Registration Required]
A Bid to Chill Thinking. I can't remember anything quite as nasty -- or as politically skewed -- as Rep. Joe Barton's recent attack on scientists whose views on global warming he doesn't like. Washington Post. Opinion, 22 July 2005. [Registration Required]
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