new EPA boss: Master of Science (M.S.) in PATHOLOGY

how very appropriate for a bush* minion....a pathologist....NOT the scientific skill sought or hired by EPA....wonder how this guy stabbed his way to the top?


http://www.epa.gov/adminweb/administrator/biography.htm

Mr. Johnson was born on March 21, 1951 in Washington, DC. He received a B.A. in Biology from Taylor University in Indiana and an M.S. in Pathology from George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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pathologist

pa·thol·o·gist < pə thólləjist > (plural pa·thol·o·gists)

noun

specialist in pathology: a scientist who is skilled in identifying the nature, origin, progress, and cause of disease, especially one who determines the cause of somebody’s death by an autopsy


Photo posted on
EPA web site in January 2005



Photos taken March 4, 2005...another overweight red-nosed bushite

I believe he loves dead bodies....

http://www.newfarm.org/news/2005/0205/021005/chem_peopl ...


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EPA avoids regulation of chemical experiments on humans


WASHINGTON, DC, February 8, 2005 (ENS): Experiments that intentionally dose human subjects with pesticides and other chemicals will be evaluated and approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a wide open case-by-case manner, the agency says in a draft notice for publication in the Federal Register.

The EPA is seeking public comment on this case-by-case method of considering experiments that involve human subjects in a notice dated February 2 and signed by Susan Hazen, acting assistant administrator in the Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances.

The guidelines proposed by the agency are all voluntary and non-binding upon the experimenters, the EPA or the public.

The notice defers adopting legally binding protections for infants, fetuses, pregnant women, and prisoners that apply to all medical and drug testing overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Instead, EPA announces that it "indends to publish a proposed rule” at some time in the future.

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The EPA is forming a panel to review the study. In a January 24 letter to then EPA Deputy Administrator Stephen Johnson, the Environmental Working Group requests that the makeup of the panel be "fair and balanced."

"By that we mean that there should be no past or present pesticide or chemical industry employees, consultants or contractors on the review panel, and that there must be several individuals with strong public health credentials, including expertise in pediatric environmental health," wrote Environmental Working Group Senior Vice President Richard Wiles.

Johnson, who has defended the CHEERS study, has now been elevated to the position of EPA Acting Administrator, following the departure of former EPA Adminstrator Mike Leavitt January 28 to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

Wiles notes that his organization and others object to the "fundamentally unethical nature" of the CHEERS study design, which proposed to "stand by and simply observe what the study acknowledged to be high pesticide exposures to infants and small children."

Once the EPA fully deregulates all industries and it's a polluter's free-for-all, all that will be left for Dr. Johnson to do is examine the resulting corpses.

Bush Administration: 10
Science: 0