RE: The Doctor Says

Let me see if I have this straight. You went on a diatribe against the George Neumayr article, not offering a single argument to refute anything he said, but simply slandering him as a non-journalist journalist (I imagine Mr. Neumayr might even thank you for that). You called his article weak and dumb but only offered the weak and dumb counter-argument that Republicans do the same thing. Then you offered up this bit of trash from Mrs. Airhead Brinson to rebut? That's not just sad, that's pathetic.

Her article contradicts itself from the beginning to the end: Frist was wrong to use the clout of his MD to butt into the Schiavo case, but he's right to use his MD clout to butt into the stem cell research debate. Not only that, but it proves Neumayr's point quite nicely. The Winston-Salem Journal, which is inarguably nothing more than a mouthpiece of the NC Democrats, has taken the editorial position that Frist is right when he supports a medical position the Democrats favor, but wrong when he opposes them. Somehow, according to Dingbat Brinson, the very same MD that give Frist omniscient powers of keen deduction regarding stem cells seems to inexplicably fail him when evaluating brain death. To top it all off, the guy is a heart-lung surgeon! He's not a biochemist, he's not a cellular biology researcher. He used to deal in cardio-pulmonary spare parts and now he's a politician! Heaven save us from the morons on both sides of the aisle who deify any fool who managed to stay sober long enough to graduate med school.

And the real issue in all of this? The government shouldn't be involved in funding research of any description. Nothing else should even be debated.