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Science Friday > Archives > 2003 > January
> January 10, 2003:
Hour One: Government
Science Advisory Committees
Over 200 science advisory boards provide advice to agencies of the
government's Department of Health and Human Services on topics ranging
from safe lead levels to the use of humans as research subjects. Some
critics say the Bush Administration is staffing those advisory boards
based on ideology, not science. The administration says that's not
so.
In this hour of Science Friday we'll look at how these committee
appointments are being made now, and how they have been made in the
past. Call in with your comments and questions at 1-800-989-8255,
and share your opinions online in our Listeners' Lounge (registration required)
Guests:
Daniel Greenberg
Washington Contributing Editor, Lancet
Freelance Journalist
Author, "Science,
Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion" (University
of Chicago Press, 2001)
Washington, DC
Jonathan Moreno
Author: "Undue
Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans" (Routledge, 2000)
Professor of Biomedical Ethics
Director, Center
for Biomedical Ethics
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Pia de Solenni
Fellow for Human Life Studies
Family Research Council
Washington, DC
Anthony Robbins
Professor of Public Health
Tufts University Medical
School
Boston, Masachusetts
Books/Articles Discussed:
Related Links:
January
18, 2002, Hour One: President's Science Advisor / Microbe News
October
4, 2002, Hour Two: UK's Science Advisor David King / Mosquitoes and
Malaria
March
23, 2001, Hour 1: Science and Technology Policy
United
States Department of Health and Human Services
Energy.gov
Office
of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Main Page
Environmental
Protection Agency
This segment produced by Annette
Heist
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