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Scientists planted hairs from lynx in 3rd forest
Washington Times ^
| 01/04/2002
| Audrey Hudson
Posted on 01/03/2002 10:25:56 PM PST by Pokey78
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:50:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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posted on
01/03/2002 10:25:56 PM PST
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
Shouldn't these people do time? Taxpayer fraud, or something?
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posted on
01/03/2002 10:37:55 PM PST
by
brat
To: Pokey78
Interesting- I wonder how much more of these types of shenanigans have been perpetrated by the commie leftist wacko environmentalists? I have a feeling that a lot of our evironmental policies are based on fraudulent data such as what is mentioned in the article- but I suppose we here at FR already knew that.
To: Pokey78
Standard procedure: only the whistle-blower will be punished.
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posted on
01/03/2002 10:45:49 PM PST
by
meadsjn
To: Carry_Okie
Uh-oh, the plot thickens!
Please bump this to the usual suspects. I don't know the list.
The report said one state scientist has acknowledged sending an additional three samples of bobcat hair taken from a pelt and labeled as lynx, but the laboratory reported that five samples were submitted.
Whoa there, maybe the WA state scientists really were trying (sloppily) to check for false positives! The WA state people were the ones who gave their samples non-existent location numbers.
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posted on
01/03/2002 11:05:51 PM PST
by
jennyp
To: meadsjn
Standard procedure: only the whistle-blower will be punished. Sadly. And how pathetic is that? It's really very frustrating.
To: *enviralists
Hey-there's-a-bump-list-for-this BUMP.
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posted on
01/03/2002 11:12:21 PM PST
by
jennyp
To: jennyp
Wonder how many spotted owl feathers were planted during that hoopla?
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posted on
01/03/2002 11:26:58 PM PST
by
jrewingjr
To: jennyp
The lynx hair bombers have struck again, or is it yet? A proper punishment for such capers would be to scatter the guily one's hair across three forests.
I wonder when the Justice Department will find time to prosecute this case of fraud and deception? Perhaps Bush will have to exercise his Presidential privilege because it truly is a problem of national security when government starts being this manipulative and underhanded.
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posted on
01/03/2002 11:29:41 PM PST
by
meenie
To: Pokey78
Does this surprise anyone? The lengths to which these people and their special interest groups will go to, are seemingly unlimited. You'd could almost see these groups gathering together to protect a species of fish that isn't even endangered, to the detriment of thousands of farming families.
To: DoughtyOne
Go Klamath Basin people too!
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posted on
01/03/2002 11:57:05 PM PST
by
steelie
To: Major Matt Mason
My guess is that most of the enviro regulations are based on junk science.
I was researching the arsenic rules, last summer because our local paper was making a big deal of the Democrat claim that Bush was trying to poison the children by not lowering the arsenic percentage. I found this great website with all these studies that showed that arsenic and selenium were related, in that one cancelled out the other (it's more complicated than that). But when Bush passed the Clinton standard in October, I went back to the website and the finished report had deleted all the studies which showed that arsenic was not really poisonous as long as selenium was also present (it usually is because they are both found in areas of former volcanic activity). And to make matters worse, the author of the bogus study was put in charge of inacting the arsenic rules.
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posted on
01/04/2002 12:01:04 AM PST
by
Eva
To: Pokey78
"They don't care about the lynx but about how much land they can tie up," the staffer said.
And they are doing it on your dime. Your tax dollars. How come these bums are not fired at a time when many other Americans are out of a job? Let these jokers try their luck in the real world. Talk about living a charmed life!
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posted on
01/04/2002 12:14:09 AM PST
by
dennisw
To: Pokey78
These are government employees, they can't do anything wrong they can't be held accountable. Pathetic. Anyone know any good manatee recepies??? Maybe know how to attract spotted owls for dinner?
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To: meadsjn
Standard procedure: only the whistle-blower will be punished. Probably why the whistle-blower reported it just the day before he retired.
To: Pokey78
That tears it. Next time they want to close off a forest because an endangered critter is present; they need to provide four pelts of said critter verified to have been shot in said forest.
Four should be enought to establish that there ARE said critters present. No more "hairs".
To: Pokey78; editor-surveyor
e-s, for your ping list.
To: Eva
I went back to the website and the finished report had deleted all the studies which showed that arsenic was not really poisonous as long as selenium was also present A tip for everyone - If you see material on the web that you think you might want to use again, bookmark it AND save it to your hard drive. Disk space is really cheap.
To: Pokey78
"Had the whistleblower not tipped this off, we may never have known about it," said one source close to the investigation. OK, I'll ask the obvious question...Considering this scheme and the global warming fiasco, How much more of what we think is "environmental science" is total bullsquat?
I'll also venture the first quess at slightly more than half.
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posted on
01/04/2002 3:47:29 AM PST
by
copycat
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