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Title: “DISINFORMATION SYNDROME” AFFLICTS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT — Officials (scientists) Routinely Rewarded for Lying and Punished for Telling the Truth
Source: PEER
URL Source: http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=554
Published: Jul 20, 2005
Author: Chas Offutt
Post Date: 2005-08-05 16:03:02 by Zipporah
Keywords: “DISINFORMATION, (scientists), GOVERNMENT
Views: 43
Comments: 1

Washington, DC — The federal government suffers from a “severe disinformation syndrome” in which agency specialists are pressured to alter reports by managers who are promoted for breaking the law, according to congressional testimony delivered today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). As a consequence, scientific and technical papers, particularly within environmental agencies, are routinely censored, altered or manipulated for political purposes.

“The Bush administration obsession with controlling the flow of information means that factual information that does not serve its political agenda rarely sees the light of day,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch who testified today. “Public servants who wish to speak honestly about matters outside officially approved agency talking points are required to cast a profile in courage because their honesty could cost them their jobs.”

Ruch appeared today before the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs of the House Committee on Government Reform in a hearing entitled “Improving Information Quality in the Federal Government.”
The other listed witnesses were Kim Nelson, the assistant administrator for the information office of the Environmental Protection Agency, and William Kovacs, an official with the Chamber of Commerce.

The PEER testimony outlines a pervasive effort to edit out vital but discordant information across the range of environmental activities:

• Science. PEER and the Union of Concerned Scientists have conducted surveys among federal scientists showing a high degree of political intervention to amend scientific findings;
• Land Management. Federal agencies are routinely issuing documents that do not withstand judicial scrutiny because the documents are at variance with the agency’s own internal data; and
• Public Health. Whistleblowers lack meaningful protections so that professionals who raise concerns are banished or terminated as a result.

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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)

As a consequence, scientific and technical papers, particularly within environmental agencies, are routinely censored, altered or manipulated for political purposes.

Given the profligate expansion of frequently inane environmental regulations among other things, this is obviously done primarily to reinforce bureaucracies...

Snuggle Bear meets Mossberg... Balance is restored to the world...

Axenolith  posted on  2005-08-05   23:54:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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