On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:47:44 -0500, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> Not just BoEs, but legislative bodies.  One of our US house of
>> representatives members on the science committee thinks that evolution
>> and the big bang theory are "from the devil".
> 
> The people who appoint completely incompetent people to those positions
> would certain not want for a completely incompetent person to perform
> eg. heart surgery on them. I would like to see the politician who allows
> a witch doctor who thinks that heart problems are caused by evil spirits
> to perform surgery on them. Yet they put completely incompetent people
> on the science committee?

Yep.

But then again, we've got at least one representative who believes that 
vaccines cause autism, because an autistic kid's mother told her so once.

Jim

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