Tuesday, September 17, 2002

HHS Seeks Science Advice to Match Bush Views (washingtonpost.com)

HHS Seeks Science Advice to Match Bush Views (washingtonpost.com)
The Bush administration has begun a broad restructuring of the scientific advisory committees that guide federal policy in areas such as patients' rights and public health, eliminating some committees that were coming to conclusions at odds with the president's views and in other cases replacing members with handpicked choices.



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The overhaul is rattling some HHS employees, some of whom said they have not seen such a political makeover of the department since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981.

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