Re: Medicine Men

This is a weak, dumb article with a dumber hypothesis.

The medicine men of old were quacks who exercised disturbing influence over their patients by claiming to possess great healing powers. The Democrats are inheritors of this tradition of charlantry... They are not the party of science but of scientific mumbo-jumbo.

If this is the case, then I guess that the Republican party would be the 'Anti-Science' party, right?

Case in point... From the New York Times:
Bush Remarks Roil Debate on Teaching of Evolution

And here's this:

They use bogus science and its omnipotent claims to seduce the public.

'Omnipotent claims to seduce the public'? And Republicans don't??? Give me a break, dude. The religious right that re-elected Dubya specialize in omnipotent claims to seduce the public.

Look at how quickly the Democrats turn skepticism about science on and off, depending on their ideological needs. When speaking of the grand medical promise of experimentation on the stem cells of destroyed human embryos, they show no skepticism about science whatsoever and make fantastical claims about its power.

Last time I checked, Dr. Bill Frist was a Republican, and one who feels pretty strongly about 'the grand medical promise' of stem cell research. So I guess he's a quack, too?

This article is a great example of why the media is 'liberal.' No real journalist could ever write this sort of nonsense.