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  Re: Scientific illiteracy in boards of education  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 7 Nov 2012 23:02:55
Message: <509b2eef$1@news.povray.org>
On 11/6/2012 1:51 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 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
>
Heh, now. This BS wouldn't have lived as long it did, or maybe even have 
happened, without the help of a certain wacko named "Lord Monckton", so...


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