CDC to investigate GOP infiltration

The infiltration by the Reich into last week's National STD Prevention COnference is now being investigated. The infiltration into our scientific community has become quite evident.

The name of the conference was altered, a panelist was removed and new panelists were added without organizer's approval.

CDC spokesperson Tom Skinner on Friday said the agency will investigate the original formation of a panel that last week discussed efficacy of abstinence-until-marriage programs in reducing the rate of sexually transmitted infections at the 2006 National STD Prevention Conference in Jacksonville, Fla., last week, CQ HealthBeat reports.

The office of Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) in an e-mail sent to HHS earlier this month had asked whether CDC was "clear about the controversial nature of [the conference] and its obvious antiabstinence objective" and asked for a shift in the focus of the conference. Souder was concerned because one of the speakers on the original panel was scheduled to speak about a report produced by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) that is critical of abstinence programs.

Maryjo Oster -- a Pennsylvania State University student who had planned to discuss how abstinence programs were linked to increases in STI rates but was removed from the panel -- on Friday said she received an e-mail on April 26 from a CDC staff member that said the panel was being changed "due to political pressures from up above".

Bruce Trigg, who heads an STI program in New Mexico and organized the panel, on Friday said he received a phone call earlier this month from CDC saying that "we can't have a one-sided criticism of a government program." Trigg added, "This is a level of interference in the public health community that I don't think we've seen before."

We can't???
Um, last I checked that is called a checks and balance.
That is called good practice.
It's called democracy.
Now the Goons of the People tell us we can't criticize a government program?

Representative Waxman has called on HHS and CDC to pledge that decisions about future members of conference panels be made by scientists and their public health colleagues "and not be subjected to political litmus tests".

Why this is necessary is baffling. We actually have to tell these agencies to keep the Reich's pseudo-morality out of science and reason.

Skinner said CDC supports a "comprehensive approach" to preventing STIs.

Yea, promoting and supporting ineffective abstinence-only programs is comprehensive.

Perhaps in King George's world, where teens are virgin zombies without minds.