What's easy and disease-ridden?...no, not a hooker...try Bu$h's CDC!

According to the Kaiser Foundation, researchers organizing a panel at the 2006 National STD Prevention Conference in Jacksonville, Fla., to discuss the efficacy of abstinence-until-marriage programs in reducing the rate of sexually transmitted infections said that CDC allowed Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.), chair of the House Subcommittee on Drug Policy, to influence the symposium.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

According to the Inquirer, Souder's office last week in an e-mail to HHS asked whether CDC was "clear about the controversial nature of the conference and its obvious anti-abstinence objective" and asked for a shift in the focus of the conference.

According to government officials, the agency changed the name of the abstinence panel, which is being held on Tuesday, and the conference added two speakers to the panel and removed another.

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, while no one was scheduled to speak in favor of the programs, the Washington Post reports.

The title of the panel was changed from "Are Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs a Threat to Public Health?" to "Public Health Strategies of Abstinence Programs for Youth," and CDC did not require the new speakers to be reviewed by the meeting's organizers.

Jonathan Zenilman, president of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association and conference organizer, said, "The only reason the new speakers are here is because of political pressure from the Bush administration."

Gee, really? Who knew that Bu$h was corrupt?
So you're telling me that Bu$h and his Reich have infested supposed-scientific agencies and the outcome is they have adopted his dangerous ideology and claim it to be "science"?