A MOST FEARED LAW

Several university "researchers," and the anti-tobacco cartel are hard at work to stop a law that would deliver many of them to state prisons, or at least destroy them politically.

The OMB (Office of Management and Budget) is receiving public comments on a regulation to implement a new law that should give the public access to the data and research behind the studies used by the government to regulate our private lives.

The taxpayers paid for this research, and we should be allowed to see it and make our own conclusions about whether it is valid or phony. Needless to say, the universities are very opposed to this law and comments currently received by OMB are 15 to 1 against the public's right to know.

The law was passed last year, but the OMB regulation will determine whether or not it becomes useful to citizens.

Why the opposition? What is there to hide? These are, of course rhetorical questions, and we should not be surprised about the opposition.

The "modern" concept of politics and public health is that we must be told by the "experts" on what to do and how to behave, what's good for us and what's not, who to like and who to chastise in our everyday lives. All this, of course, is for our own good, for it is based on "science."

But God forbid if we dare to question the foundations of the "science" behind public policy! In the Middle Ages, the ancient Church believed that science had to be preserved, but not divulged, for it "would pollute the spiritual integrity of the populace." Today we all know that the preservation of science was an instrument of absolute power for the Church. But we don't seem to realize that in these times, the public health establishment equally wants to use science as an instrument of power over us. But there is a fundamental difference between now and then. The ancient Church was at least preserving ancient knowledge. Today's public health establishment is protecting junk science, and deceptions, from the eyes of honesty.

This law would simply reveal the frauds of universities and other entities, for the public would be aware of everything there is to know each time we are told that "a new study reveals..."

In fact, the attempt to hide research and scholarship not only from wider dissemination but from independent examination by other researchers, is antithetical to the spirit of free inquiry and of science itself.

We can only imagine (correction -- we CANNOT imagine) what would emerge about tobacco! We are sure that the criminals of anti-tobacco are hard at work, coast to coast, in a tizzy to lobby the government, and organize mass-letter writing to stop the implementation of this law.

The persecution of the tobacco industry and smokers has become a way of life and an industry that allows a luscious living for these anti-tobacco individuals and their lawyers. They are not about to have the data and the methodology of their criminal activities revealed by a stupid, democratic law!

So we are almost sure that this law will never become operative.

If it does -- and it is properly enforced -- let's prepare to crack the cigars out of the boxes, and light them up to celebrate the destruction of the "scientific" foundations of anti-tobacco, its political dungeon, and the arrest of God-knows how many well-known "gurus" of public health!

For more information on this law, and the crooks who are already hard at work to stop it, let's link to Steven Milloy's Junk Science.

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