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3116.1: Monday, November 8, 2004: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Over the past two years, the public health community has witnessed an unprecedented effort by the current administration to ignore and misuse science to further political goals or reward special interests. While the translation of science into policy has always posed challenges, today we are seeing a growing trend in federal agencies, orchestrated at the highest levels of government, to twist and dismiss scientific evidence to serve political agendas. This manipulation of science is evident in the stacking of federal advisory committees with members who have clear ideological agendas and ties to special interests. It is evident in the misuse of scientific findings when makes regulatory decisions on important public health threats such as mercury and atrazine. It is also evident in the growing list of federal agency reports, policy papers, press statements, and websites that have been selectively edited and biased. While such incidents would be troubling if they occurred in any policy context, it is especially alarming that they are all taking place in the public health policy arena. This session will highlight a number of recent examples highlighting the misuse of science and will discuss the response from the scientific and public health communities. | |||
| Learning Objectives: • Describe the impact of bias and politics in environmental public health decision making; • Understand, through the case example of mercury, how invested corporations influence the policy process; • Recognize how the Bush Administration’s political objectives have shaped the scientific information it shares with the public; • Understand industry influence on scientific research relating to toxic chemicals and human health; • Understand the broader implications for public health of the findings of the 2004 Union of Concerned Scientists report. | |||
| Susan West Marmagas, MPH Marni Rosen, MPA Robin Lee, MPH | |||
| Michael Green, MS, MPP | |||
| Corporate Influence on Public Health: How Political Objectives Shape Scientific Information Shared with the Public Eric Schaeffer | |||
| Public Health Implications of EPA’s Proposed Mercury Standard for Power Plants Lynn Goldman, MD, MPH | |||
| Industry Dilutes the Weight of the Evidence in the Case for Atrazine as an Endocrine Disruptor Tyrone Hayes, PhD | |||
| Scientific Community Speaks Out for the Integrity of Science alden Meyer | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Occupational Health and Safety | ||
| CE Credits: | Nursing | ||