CQ Interview: A Diagnosis of Undue Influence: Congressman Henry
Waxman on Science and Politics
STEVE
HEILIG
a1
a1 Steve Heilig, M.P.H., is Director of Public
Health and Education at the San Francisco Medical Society,
Director of the Bay Area Network of Ethics Committees, San
Francisco, California, and Co-Editor of the Cambridge
Quarterly
of
Healthcare
Ethics
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Busy physicians and scientists tend to be willfully naive about
politics. Physics, chemistry, and biology are clean—that is,
subject to relatively consistent and identifiable laws or at least
trends and, certainly in the case of medicine, beneficial when properly
applied. Politics, on the other hand, tend to be unpredictable, murky,
and dirty—that is, too often all about self-serving power and,
ultimately, money.
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