City Health Department

Mayor Bloomberg continued to push his science-over-faith policy theme today in an address that concluded a public health conference at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"We respect science," said the mayor. "We base policy not on what we think is true, but what we can prove is true."

That echoes his speech at Johns Hopkins, which put him clearly at odds with conservative Republicans on some of the country's most deeply felt issues.

He also added gun control to the list of public health menaces.

"To this list of public health problems, I would add our intolerable inaction in stopping the flood of illegal guns onto our city streets."

All in all, probably not a speech that Washington Republicans were crazy about.  read more »

Read the whole thing after the jump.

- Jason Horowitz