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The data masseurs.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: Rob Foot's "The Left's Descent into the Abyss" (March 2005) touched me. Like him, I was once one of them, piously, even aggressively.
The scales began to fall from my eyes when I was Counsel Assisting the Agent Orange Royal Commission, chosen perhaps because, like Phillip Evatt, I was of the Left.
The spectacle of the talented and "respectable" scientists cheerfully admitting to "massaging the data" (the Left's euphemism for falsifying results) to prove that the use of Agent Orange amounted to chemical warfare, in order to advance "the cause" initially astounded and soon revolted me. The ...
- CANADA: AGENT ORANGE SETTLEMENT COVERS LIMITED TIME FRAME.
- News wire article from: Interpress Service September 20, 2007 700+ words
...their exposure to the toxic defoliant Agent Orange, but veterans' advocates say the reparations...by the U.S. in the Vietnam War, Agent Orange was tested and sprayed extensively in...spent summers hacking foliage soaked in Agent Orange while clearing forests at the Canadian...
- Vietnam Flashback.(diabetes-Agent Orange connection-)
- Magazine article from: Reason Fumento, Michael July 1, 2000 700+ words
Does Agent Orange cause diabetes? U.S. veterans groups have long considered Agent Orange, the controversial herbicide used to defoliate...Ho Chi Minh and Henry Kissinger combined. Agent Orange exposure has been blamed for virtually any...
- Agent Orange
- Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science January 1, 2008 700+ words
Agent Orange Agent Orange is a defoliant that kills plants and causes the leaves to fall...orange band that marked the containers storing the defoliant. Agent Orange was an equal mixture of two chemicals; 2, 4 – D (2...
- Agent Orange: legacy of disability.(Veterans' health aspects of exposure to...
- Magazine article from: DAV Magazine Wilborn, Thom January 1, 2005 700+ words
...the reddish-brown liquid known as Agent Orange used to defoliate trees and remove jungle...An estimated 21 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides were sprayed Over...the ill effects of their exposure. Agent Orange was a 50:50 mixture of 2,4,5...
- U.S. military tested Agent Orange in Panama, accounts say.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Robberson, Tod August 20, 1999 700+ words
...States military conducted secret tests of Agent Orange and other toxic herbicides in Panama...remain unproven, hundreds of barrels of Agent Orange were shipped to Panama at the height...Panama say the addition of claims for Agent Orange-related exposure could cause liability...
- Kerry and Agent Orange; Mists of time: Agent Orange doused the Mekong Delta in...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek March 8, 2004 700+ words
...March 24, 2004 In "Kerry & Agent Orange" (March 8) a caption accompanying...within the same article, we stated that Agent Orange is a "variation of" dioxin. In fact...mosquito spray." The "stuff" was Agent Orange, which, over time, can be lethal...
- DISEASE DATA *AGENT ORANGE STUDY STUMBLES.(Main)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) September 1, 1987 700+ words
...congressionally mandated study on the effects of Agent Orange on American ground soldiers in Vietnam...Disease Control in recent weeks to key Agent Orange advisory committees in the administration...whether troops with high exposure to Agent Orange could be identified from military ...
- American Legion labels Centers for Disease Control study 'scientific fraud.'...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 30, 1990 700+ words
...to study the effects of the herbicide Agent Orange on Vietnam veterans. The CDC admitted...Vietnam veterans was in no way related to Agent Orange, but led the public to believe that...service in Vietnam who were exposed to Agent Orange. The CDC's claim of inability to...
Source: HighBeam Research, The data masseurs.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)