Anyone remember this: Quietly, Congress extends a ban on CDC research on gun violence

[icymist]

In the immediate aftermath of the massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee quietly rejected an amendment that would have allowed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the underlying causes of gun violence.

That has caused strange gyrations in research, such as this November report by the CDC into gun violence that manages not to be about guns.

Though gun violence and gun control has stayed in the forefront of the American conversation in recent months, most recently after Wednesday's mass killings in a developmental disabilities center in San Bernardino, California, prohibition on gun research goes back decades.

Dr. Fred Rivara, a professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at the University of Washington at Seattle Children's Hospital, has been involved with injury research for 30 years. He was part of a team that researched gun violence back in the 1990s and personally saw the chilling effects of the NRA’s lobbying arm. Rivara says that the NRA accused the CDC of trying to use science to promote gun control.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-02/quietly-congress-extends-ban-cdc-research-gun-violence

[malaise]

1. Yes - get thee to the greatest page

Rec

[LanternWaste]

2. Science and research are the great enemy of the irrational,

Science and research are the great enemy of the irrational, so is little doubt why the Dickey amendment is popular among fanatics of a secular tin god.


In October 2015, 110 members of Congress, all of whom were Democrats, signed a letter calling on Congress to reject the Dickey amendment. In December 2015, despite Nancy Pelosi's efforts to have it removed from the spending bill for the following year, Congress passed this bill with the amendment still in it.

[silverweb]

3. Ya think?

"Rivara says that the NRA accused the CDC of trying to use science to promote gun control."

He says that like it's a bad thing. You know, like being a liberal is "bad."

[asiliveandbreathe]

4. Thank you, icymist - just watched J Lewis and the POS mnuchin volley....

I had no idea - times like this I visit the Southern Poverty Law site, 917 hate groups....no we don't have a problem....science. who needs it...