Comments on: Politics and environmental health http://environmentalhealthtoday.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/politics-and-environmental-health/ Discussion and news about contemporary environmental public health issues - local, national, and international. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:00:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: environmentalhealthtoday http://environmentalhealthtoday.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/politics-and-environmental-health/#comment-4 environmentalhealthtoday Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:34:24 +0000 http://environmentalhealthtoday.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-4 The conflicts that we are seeing between ideology and science (among many scientific disciplines) are not new. At times the difference may result from uninformed individuals; however, it can also be due to a deliberate intent. The Union of Concerned Scientists raises valid and important issues. The "interferences," particularly at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are frightening. Perhaps scientists at our federal (and perhaps state) agencies need some form of "tenure" (such as seen in academia) to protect their science. Stephenson (1997) said it nicely in suggesting that we need a “…political ecology within an ethical framework.” ________________________ Stephenson, P. H. (1997). Environmental Health Perspectives on the Consequences of an Ideology of Control in "Natural" Systems. Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology, 34(3), 349. The conflicts that we are seeing between ideology and science (among many scientific disciplines) are not new. At times the difference may result from uninformed individuals; however, it can also be due to a deliberate intent. The Union of Concerned Scientists raises valid and important issues. The “interferences,” particularly at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are frightening.

Perhaps scientists at our federal (and perhaps state) agencies need some form of “tenure” (such as seen in academia) to protect their science.

Stephenson (1997) said it nicely in suggesting that we need a “…political ecology within an ethical framework.”

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Stephenson, P. H. (1997). Environmental Health Perspectives on the Consequences of an Ideology of Control in “Natural” Systems. Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology, 34(3), 349.

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