Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is a national alliance of local state and federal resource professionals. As a service organization assisting federal & state public employees, PEER allows public servants to work as "anonymous activists" so that agencies must confront the message, rather than the messenger.
In December 2006 PEER incorrectly reported "Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees," catering to creationists. As Skeptic noted this is incorrect and park service explains "40 million years and that the Grand Canyon itself is probably less than five to six million years old."[1] PEER removed the incorrect claim and noted the park service basis its statements "to explain the natural processes and history of the Earth must be based on the best scientific evidence available, as found in scholarly sources that have stood the test of scientific peer review and criticism".[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Shermer, Michael. "Fact Checking 101", Skeptic, January 17th, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-01-20.
- ^ "How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Servuce Won't Say", Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, January 7, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-01-19.
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