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In "the latest instance in which the Bush administration has been accused of allowing politics to intrude [6] into once-sacrosanct areas of scientific deliberation," the Health and Human Services Department [7] asked the World Health Organization to allow the Department's secretary to review meeting invitations. The WHO refused, claiming that changing its long-standing practice of directly inviting individual scientists could "compromise the independence of international scientific deliberations." A spokesperson for Department Secretary Tommy Thompson [8] said, "The World Health Organization does not know the best people to talk to, but HHS knows."
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/6/diane-farsetta
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/politics
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/science
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/us-government
[5] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2004%2F06%2F2739%2Fsound-it-me-science&linkname=Sound-It-By-Me%20Science
[6] http://www.prwatch.org/spin/February_2004.html#1078030802
[7] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services
[8] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Tommy_G._Thompson
[9] http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-science26jun26,1,7689856.story