Some administrations destroy paper trails, some rewrite the past, a few rewrite the present. The Bush administration is doing all three. It has removed information on Fish and Game Department's public website concluding that oil drilling at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will "destroy," "disrupt," "diminish," and "damage" the environment and wildlife in the region.The Bush administration also ordered the removal of maps from the internet that documented the migratory patterns of arctic caribou. It then terminated the scientist who compiled and posted the information which would have helped environmentalists show the impact of oil drilling.In e-mail, Ian Thomas, the scientist who posted the map, wrote: "I'm handing in my government keys on Monday all for a tiny map (the size of a postcard) showing where baby caribou like to hang out...pretty amazing...I'm pissed off...I think this is plain and simple censorship of a fundamental right for free public debate and access to information...and god knows what happens to any federal scientist working in Alaska who says anything against the "party line". As of tomorrow, I'm on enforced leave and at home."http://archive.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn2001032 7.html
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"It is most extraordinary the way the medical profession and the public are chary of trying herbs which have borne the test of centuries of experience, and yet are willing to accept the unconditionally at newly discovered panacea: and accept it as infallible without the infallible test of time." Mrs. C. F. Leyel