'Panel To Decide What is Cause of Peptic Ulcers'' reports The Wall Street Journal, February 7 p B1. "The panel of 15 medical experts is being convened here this morning by the National Institutes of Health in a procedure called a Consensus Development Conference. The experts are chosen because they haven't been involved in research on the bacterium and haven't taken sides on some of the more controversial issues. For a day and a half they'll listen to presentations by researchers and then reach a consensus.''
Why not just let both sides make a TV media blitz for a couple of months and then take a public opinion poll? Truth is independent of opinion and, very often, is opposite to majority opinion. Pseudoenvi-ronmentalism seeks to establish "perceived truths'' by self-serving propaganda and then substitute them for the real thing. It is not surprising that the socialized medical research community is now going down the same road to nonscience. Socialism just doesn't work.
"Earthquakes and Collective Action'' by D. E. Koshland and B. Hanson, Science263 p 451 (1994) is written in support of Clin-ton's donation of about $10 billion of tax money to participants in the recent California earthquake. "Not Yours to Give'' from The Life of David Crockett by Edward S. Ellis gives Crockett's timeless answer to Koshland's socialist immorality. This has been reprinted from Freeman by Grapevine Publications, PO Box 45057, Boise, ID 83711. (25 cents per copy - order one if you have never read this.)
Remember the "Unspotted Sturgeon,'' the stuffed fish the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to use as a surrogate to shut down Alabama rivers? Well the USFWS spotted one and managed to catch it, according to The Wall Street Journal, January 26, 1994 p A14. USFWS says it looked like the stuffed fish. Past tense - because, in their tender care, the fish died. So far USFWS has stonewalled all attempts by biologists, particularly those from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (which is trying to preserve human use of the rivers), to obtain samples from the fish. Genetic analysis from such samples is needed to determine whether or not the fish is a distinct species as compared with ordinary sturgeon that are abundant in the rivers.
USFWS plans to preserve the fish in formaldehyde which may destroy the possibility of genetic analysis. Anyway, says James Stewart who is leading the spotted fish parade for USFWS, genetics doesn't matter if the fish looks different. Last year, here in Cave Junction, Oregon, we stopped an attempt to use the winter Steelhead fish in our streams as a surrogate to shut down our lumber and farming industries. That success was primarily due to genetic analysis of our Steelhead which showed that they were not a distinct species as compared with those in nearby rivers. USFWS is learning - pose as scientists, but oppose real science.
Department of Environmental Quality Waste Management Proposed Rules, Article 14 require that medical waste be stored in 40 psi safe containers. This is roughly equivalent to the Swiss national civil defense requirement for 50 psi blast shelters. Americans have no such protection except for politicians and bureaucrats who are provided protection under the Federal Emergency Management Agency "Continuity of Government'' program. In case of war, Americans will have no food, water, or shelters, but they will have available a plentiful supply of politicians, bureaucrats, and medical waste.
