Bang me silly, Claude Allen
When all else fails, the Administration has simply preached:
In February, a hundred CDC researchers on sexually transmitted
diseases were summoned to Washington by HHS deputy secretary
Claude Allen for a daylong affair consisting entirely of speakers
extolling abstinence until marriage. There were no panels or
workshops, just endless testimonials, including one by a
young woman calling herself "a born-again virgin."
See previously Speak no evil and researchers feared [NYT] that
the concerns of individual members of Congress were now being
taken more seriously by the health and human services department.