Human Nature

Six years into the Bush Administration, it's basically the ant wars all over again. At key agencies, a disregard for inconvenient evidence seems today to be a prerequisite. A memo prepared by the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in mid-March, for example, revealed that officials of the White House Council on Environmental Quality had made more than a hundred and eighty changes to a status report on global warming, ... Full Story »

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Oliver Jones
4.6
by Oliver Jones - Oct. 1, 2008

The hook for this short news-analysis piece is Rachel Carson's 100th birthday. It reviews some contemporary government denial behavior in the context of the era in which Carson wrote _Silent Spring,_ and draws effective parallels

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4.6

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