ace...I get your point.
But It is inappropriate (and unethical) when the best judgment of medical doctors (like the SG and CDC physicans) and career scientists (at EPA, DOI, NASA, etc) are overruled and their findings and recommendations suppressed by policy wonks with no background or expertise, but acting solely on ideology......to the extent NEVER done before.
GWH Bush said it pretty well 17 years ago when he expressed his vision of how science must be used by government.
"Science, like any field of endeavor, relies on freedom of inquiry;`and one of the hallmarks of that freedom is objectivity.` Now more than ever, on issues ranging from climate change to AIDS research to genetic engineering to food additives,government relies on the impartial perspective of science for guidance."
GW Bush has taken science and medicine as far`from that vision as anyone could have imagined.