Comments on: Politics, climate change, and health http://gravlee.org/medanthro/2007/10/24/politics-climate-change-and-health/ Course website for Fall 2009 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:04:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Krysten Barreto http://gravlee.org/medanthro/2007/10/24/politics-climate-change-and-health/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Krysten Barreto Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:30:40 +0000 http://gravlee.org/medanthro/2007/10/24/politics-climate-change-and-health/#comment-69 I cant beleive that the government had the guts to change Julie gerberding's testimony. There are obviosly things writtin in her testimony that they dont want the people to know. Aside from this incident, i feel that the government does this with alot of other things to. I think that they change things, publish things, and hide things from us in order to manipulate us to buy more things or use certain products. Its just kinda scary to think what they are hiding from us, or the kinds of things they could be "watering down" to benefit themselves. I cant beleive that the government had the guts to change Julie gerberding’s testimony. There are obviosly things writtin in her testimony that they dont want the people to know. Aside from this incident, i feel that the government does this with alot of other things to. I think that they change things, publish things, and hide things from us in order to manipulate us to buy more things or use certain products. Its just kinda scary to think what they are hiding from us, or the kinds of things they could be “watering down” to benefit themselves.

]]> By: David http://gravlee.org/medanthro/2007/10/24/politics-climate-change-and-health/comment-page-1/#comment-64 David Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:15:18 +0000 http://gravlee.org/medanthro/2007/10/24/politics-climate-change-and-health/#comment-64 Scienceprogress.org recently posted Julie Gerberding's unredacted testimony. Its incredible how the core of the report was completely cut out, making it rather vague and meaningless. I also found it interesting how the assessment paid good attention to the psychological effects, its not often that researchers focus on that. http://www.scienceprogress.org/2007/10/redacted-testimony-of-cdc-%20director-julie-l-gerberding/ Scienceprogress.org recently posted Julie Gerberding’s unredacted testimony. Its incredible how the core of the report was completely cut out, making it rather vague and meaningless. I also found it interesting how the assessment paid good attention to the psychological effects, its not often that researchers focus on that.

http://www.scienceprogress.org/2007/10/redacted-testimony-of-cdc-%20director-julie-l-gerberding/

]]> By: Meena Nuthi http://gravlee.org/medanthro/2007/10/24/politics-climate-change-and-health/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Meena Nuthi Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:20:17 +0000 http://gravlee.org/medanthro/2007/10/24/politics-climate-change-and-health/#comment-58 I found this particular article every interesting considering the fact that I just finished reading the paper on Bidill, the race specific heart pill and which showed how the government/commerce and science are all interconnected. I find this article to be another great example of the above mentioned interconnection. I mean just the fact that Julie Gerberding, the director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had to defend her congressional testimony on the health effects of climate change because the white house decided to water down her testimony to better fit their needs is just preposterous. Stuff like this just makes me wonder even more just how much more stuff the government is "watering down". I found this particular article every interesting considering the fact that I just finished reading the paper on Bidill, the race specific heart pill and which showed how the government/commerce and science are all interconnected. I find this article to be another great example of the above mentioned interconnection. I mean just the fact that Julie Gerberding, the director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had to defend her congressional testimony on the health effects of climate change because the white house decided to water down her testimony to better fit their needs is just preposterous. Stuff like this just makes me wonder even more just how much more stuff the government is “watering down”.

]]>