Current head of EPA advocated testing pesticides on humans?

Jara sang

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Tue Dec-20-05 02:18 PM
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Current head of EPA advocated testing pesticides on humans?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L._Johnson

During his Senate confirmation hearing, Johnson was criticized for his professed support for using human subjects in pesticide testing. In April, a hold was placed on his confirmation vote after he refused to cancel the Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study, which advocated testing the effects of pesticides on children from infancy to age 3. On April 8, Johnson canceled the study. His nomination was confirmed by the Senate on April 29.

Oh, these Bushies are a lovely bunch.

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texpatriot2004

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Tue Dec-20-05 02:20 PM
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1. They are all about the "culture of life" you know. (sarcasm on) nt

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Norquist Nemesis

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Tue Dec-20-05 02:21 PM
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2. Ummm.... Human CHILDREN!!!

IIRC, it was a program touted to lower income families to earn money by intentionally giving/exposing their kids the stuff. Despicable.

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kcass1954

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Tue Dec-20-05 02:48 PM
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6. Yeah, but they were poor and mostly brown...

:sarcasm:

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justabob

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Tue Dec-20-05 02:56 PM
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7. I thought this was still on the table

There has been stuff posted recently about the newly proposed and badly misnamed "Protections for Subjects in Human Research" that reads like something Dr Mengele would propose.

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Robert Cooper

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Tue Dec-20-05 02:30 PM
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3. I can think of a few human subjects for this: George, Dick, Karl...

...the problem is they never volunteer ;-)

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Jara sang

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Tue Dec-20-05 02:43 PM
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5. He should do his testing on the denizens of "Freerepublic"

Oh wait... they have to be "human" subjects.

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Robert Cooper

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Tue Dec-20-05 02:59 PM
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9. ...and they need brains ;-) nt

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Talismom

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Tue Dec-20-05 02:40 PM
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4. and as he makes his speech, he's standing there with his arms

around his own grandchildren who he's offering up as experimental rats 1 and 2. Yeah right!

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mandyky

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Tue Dec-20-05 02:57 PM
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8. Old News!

Over a year ag it was known the EPA was advocating testing of pesticides (I think in FL) of minority and poor children. These people suck so bad it is pathetic!

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Jara sang

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Tue Dec-20-05 03:02 PM
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11. I just found out about it and I consider myself to be pretty well informed

Shows you how people can rise to power while the publics attention is occupied elsewhere.

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mandyky

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Tue Dec-20-05 05:35 PM
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12. Robert Kennedy and Mike who se whats said this

on Unfiltered almost a year ago.

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depakid

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Tue Dec-20-05 02:59 PM
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10. Well, the Dems knew and could have blocked this

Edited on Tue Dec-20-05 03:02 PM by depakid

But, as usual- they did NOTHING to protect America's children- and THIS is why they lose.

And why they will CONTINUE to lose if they keep giving Bush Co. a pass- and you know what? They'll deserve to. This one was a real no-brainer.

But then again- so have tons of others. Next up Alito. Will the Dems sell us out again? And punt away another major issue- corruption? Stay tuned.

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