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- Lynxplus, on 10/20/2007, -17/+177And he's opposed to stem cell research?
- mal1964, on 10/16/2007, -8/+119China is studying the effects from lead paint on America Children
- neckfire, on 10/16/2007, -25/+109Not to sound too cynical but it sounds about par for the course. Secret Police? Check. Prison Camps? Check. Experiments on undesirables? Check. Silencing of critics through use of force/imprisonment? Check. All we need to complete the picture are death camps and a silly mustache- I personally hope Bush chooses the "Lemmy".
:/ - RadiantBeing, on 10/10/2007, -12/+83You guys are ***** gullible.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cheers.asp - chaosmachine, on 10/16/2007, -25/+88This is important.
- RadiantBeing, on 10/16/2007, -22/+73This ***** was debunked by Snopes years ago. Congratulations, if you believed this video, you're susceptible to propaganda.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cheers.asp - epicstruggle, on 10/17/2007, -6/+44It would be a crime if it actually happened:
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cheers.asp - kaelyiesta, on 10/17/2007, -15/+49Wouldn't it be criminal to knowingly harm your child this way? Its fine and good if someone wishes to hurt themselves, but the kid has no ***** say in this. How can legislature be passed to allow companies to do this? Surely it would be a crime, right?
- arduenn, on 10/10/2007, -7/+38This is two years old and the program was cancelled. http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2005/2005-04-11 ...
- Fabc001, on 10/16/2007, -16/+46Well Prescott Bush, G.W's grand daddy did fund Hitler (yes it's true, Google it). The Bush family love this type of *****!
- epicstruggle, on 10/10/2007, -10/+32Also it never happened the way its being portrait:
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cheers.asp - GiggleStick, on 10/10/2007, -5/+23Ok, maybe you're a troll, but I can't resist.
In Tuskegee, the infected had already acquired Syphilis in the usual old fashioned way (sex), as it was pretty rampant at the time (Al Capone had it too). What they did do is fail to treat the patients on purpose to see the progression of the disease, and to either make the patients believe they were being treated, or that they didn't need to be treated. Still extremely bad, but you really need to get your facts straight.
Also, I think you mean Autism from vaccines, but that's been debunked too.
Try facts. - christianjb, on 10/16/2007, -8/+25I respect Snopes, but a Google search showed quite convincing evidence that the story's true. It was reported in several large circulation newspapers who presumably check their facts quite carefully. e.g. the NY times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/politics/09pesti ...
A recruiting flier for the program, called the Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study, or Cheers, offered $970, a free camcorder, a bib and a T-shirt to parents whose infants or babies were exposed to pesticides if the parents completed the two-year study. The requirements for participation were living in Duval County, Fla., having a baby under 3 months old or 9 to 12 months old, and "spraying pesticides inside your home routinely." - choy, on 10/10/2007, -7/+24Go read this. It's gullible peopel like you who swallow propaganda without question that bring the whole world down.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cheers.asp - athomik99, on 10/16/2007, -4/+21I am continually amazed at the gullibility and outright stupidity of the posters on Digg. With minimal digging you can find the truth about stories like this. Kudos to RadiantBeing and Athfrith for posting the real story. You keep my faith alive that intelligent humans DO still exist!
- clothmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19It's the rational kind... you know, the kind that says "I didn't know about this, what else do I not know about?"
- christianjb, on 10/16/2007, -10/+25The story appears to date back to Jan 2006
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0123-11.htm
Guess what? The media appears to have slept through the whole thing. I don't recall this even being a minor scandal in the news. - choy, on 10/10/2007, -10/+24Actually it is propaganda. Go read and try to do a little research before you swallow this kind of crap
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cheers.asp - GlenLeafJr, on 10/10/2007, -6/+18Excuse me douche but the experiments noted were in 92 and 2000. W wasn't in office yet...
- RadiantBeing, on 10/16/2007, -6/+18Notice how the verbs were in the passive. "Were exposed" refers to pesticide exposure from the environment the children grew up in. It doesn't mean some researcher deliberately exposed the children to pesticides.
Oh, and do you really think the NYTimes cares about facts? Show me one piece of evidence that says the government put pesticides into a child's home or body. You can't. - adooga, on 10/15/2007, -3/+15Especially if the person you're trying to link actually had close ties to Hitler. Otherwise it's harder.
- sanman, on 10/10/2007, -13/+24Dear God, what new low will the baby-killing grandmother-molesting puppy-kicking Bush stoop to next?
Thankfully, Diggers will soon tell us. - scrappyvintage, on 10/10/2007, -13/+24Of course. It could possibly save a life.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 10/20/2007, -6/+16The reason that BushCo is against stem cell research is;
1) It pleases the American Taliban that support him.
2) By not having tax-payer funded research, private industry will be able to patent the important research and charge us out the nose (so to speak).
3) Because he cares.
I'm sure # 3 was hard to believe. It must be true because the tell us so, and the war on drugs protects a million pot smokers by arresting them and throwing them in prison with people who will rape them while they must live in a 4x8 cement box and eat food by the lowest bidder. What did the head of the EPA do after 9/11? She said it was safe for people to work at the site without protective gear -- her own headquarters, however, had HEPA filters installed and was properly cleaned of Asbestos... but hey, these people care about human life. That's why we have a war for oil in Iraq that has killed 700,000 to 1 Million people and displaced about 4.5 million -- I'm sure all of them are suspects. - epicstruggle, on 10/10/2007, -13/+22No he is not against stem cell research. He and others are opposed to (destructive) embryonic stem cell research. There are many types of stem cell research and only one type that Bush opposes. Dont perpetuate lies, think/learn/research, if not you will be just as bad as religious fundamentalists that take others word for gospel.
- JoeVet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Sorry, Re-read Snopes which does call this an observational study and I found articles published in peer reviewed journals that confirm that this was an observational study. The hype was from one incorrect articles tat stated it was deliberate spraying. Still thankful for all the outrage at the possibility of deliberate poisoning though. It shows that people care what happens to their neighbors. My apologies to GWB and the EPA.
- Devotia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Facts get in the way of the truthiness of the whole scenario.
- TheFinaleofSeem, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9That's because this woman is either grossly misinformed or flat-out lying:
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cheers.asp - christianjb, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11Commenter on Youtube link says this story is 2 years old. Is that true?
- ninephoenixes, on 10/16/2007, -15/+22At first I thought this was gonna be more propaganda from the extreme left, but it turns out that the title isn't an embelishment.
What the *****? - JoeVet, on 10/10/2007, -6/+13The Snopes article did not refute the fact that the EPA study was designed to apply pesticide inside peoples homes to study the effect on the children. The Snopes article only attempted to justify the research by saying those people already use pesticide. There is a big difference between monitoring children in homes that use pesticides and paying people to purposely use pesticides for a study. The former study is stricly observational and the latter study purposely poisons children. The program was canceled in 2005 before it started. It was the GWB administration that was sponsoring this study and it does fit with their lack of human decency. I refrain from invoking the image of past German administrations but there is a real and very scary resemblance here. Thankfully we have more people who oppose such behavior here.
- ArnoldLayne, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7What's wrong with poisoning kids? It keeps them off the streets where they can get caught underneath your car.
- zebbie, on 10/10/2007, -7/+13and what other programmes havent been cancelled? This is nothing new the American government tested radioactive substances against unknowing humans from the late 40's up till 1976 but we shouldnt just be putting up with it.
- Fallout911, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8As Randi Rhodes put is "Love the fetus not the baby" is the Republican motto.
- unpolloloco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6isnt 2000 within Clinton's presidency?????
- counterplex, on 10/20/2007, -2/+8Unfortunately embryos created as a result of in-vitro fertilization get destroyed anyway - I don't see Bush legislating to protect every one of those embryos and/or bring them to term. Given that situation I find it morally irresponsible to destroy such embryos in vain. Embryonic stem cell research looks like a key ingredient in cures for major diseases like diabetes, cancer, paralysis and others.
Certainly if a person can die and leave his organs for someone else to use, an embryo that would get killed anyway should be able to benefit humanity with its most precious treasures. - revo764, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9Not at all clown, if someone says to google it then they are saying look it up for yourself and come to your own conclusion. P.S I suggest everyone Google operation Mocking bird.
- gn0stik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5and the rest of the time it was clinton. so, your argument that it's the "bush empire" is crap. Both dems and republicans were behind this.
- quaxon, on 10/10/2007, -15/+20I completely agree, how much longer are we gonna choose to ignore this before we actually fight back? you've got to wonder what this all means. From torture to secret prisons/'detainee' camps to the rise and importance of mercenary groups to Bush attempting to seal all records to now this. We (the average american) really have no clue what is going on over there in those secret prisons (which there are dozens of) other than the population in them is growing exponentially. Those who have tried to come out and speak about the atrocities are mysteriously found dead. What the the ***** is going on? I am almost convinced we are on the verge of the next holocaust, the mass killings might not have started yet (or they have and we just don't know, does this sound familiar?), but they sure as hell have been busy rounding up a hell of a lot of people. What have we become? This is becoming harder and harder to ignore. WHAT THE ***** IS GOING ON????
- revo764, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Look up operation Mockingbird, learn about the trolls that stalk Digg and other sites to ridicule stories that expose the Neo-Cons!
- alex7575, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6So if you had radioactive material laying near your house, and instead of the government making sure that you're not exposed, said, "hey let's see what happens to them", you'd be ok with it?
- adooga, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6No, I think they're just digging yours down. Why do you think that is?
- enri, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5This link needs to be posted at the top of the comments. I remember reading about this when it was proposed. I initially misinterpreted the study in the same way (always do a little of your own researching kids :P). Bush 43 is deserving of criticism but it should be for legitimate reasons, e.g. war crimes, despotism, nepotism.
- choy, on 10/10/2007, -22/+26this is *****. This happened BEFORE the Bush administration, actually during the Clinton Presidency there was an attempt to rescind the acceptance of data. It is a little more complicated than the original poster would like you to think. This article is PROPOGANDA and sensationalist - come on, this is not even remotely nazi like! Read for yourself:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/481710_4
I for one am SICK of bloody political activists using DIGG to sell all this *****. Please stick to the facts and avoid ***** story titles like this - Pake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I agree with you to some extent, but you came off a bit crude with the message. This all happened before Bush Jr., with the first two reports (the 1992 and 2000) happening during the final year of Bush Sr. and Clinton's terms. People fall into sensationalist hands far too easily on Digg.
- Jpesci, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6For those linking to Snopes saying this is inaccurate, then why when provided with documentation in the video is it mentioned that participants were required to "spray" pesticides within their home?
- lead2thehead, on 10/10/2007, -6/+10The arsenic in playgrounds that she is referring to is called pressure treated lumber. It prevents termites and other wood boring insects from tunneling through the wood and weakening the structure. The only way it would harm a child is if he eats 5 pounds of sawdust. The chemical that it was replaced with has a property that arsenic does not... IT CORRODES METAL. So now we have screws, bolts, nails, and joist supports failing left and right, causing structures to collapse. Which would you say is the bigger danger to kids? Of course, Barbara Boxer would rather sensationalize the issue, making the voters think that there is some hidden danger so that she can claim credit for "fixing" the problem that the eeeeevil corporations caused.
- synthpop, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5well then it's a good thing those sick poor kids have health insurance. no wait..
- TheFinaleofSeem, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6This woman is spouting exaggerated *****. Read more here:
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cheers.asp
It was a study on people who had already had exposure to pesticides due to routine spraying. They paid to study these people, not to soak them with pesticides themselves. Get your facts straight before ranting. - JoeDiggsIt, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5*portrayed?
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