I know you’ll find this incredible, but it seems that the last several presidents have tried to keep their Surgeons General quiet about politically sensitive scientific and medical issues.
From Reagan trying to silence Koop about AIDS to Clinton being sensitive about the news that needle exchange programs were actually working to limit disease, presidents have been reluctant to give the people the facts and let politics fall where they may.
Of course, it’s no big surprise that the main offender is the current occupant of the White House.
Aside from trying to muzzle former SG Richard Carmona about tobacco and stem cell research, the Bushies also faulted him for attending–get this–the Special Olympics.
Why? Because the Special Olympics have been supported for a long time by a “certain” family. And you know that, no matter how wonderful the cause, if the Kennedy family supports it, it must be wrong.
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