Flutterby™! : Congress and the anti-science bias

Phil Plait (of Bad Astronomy fame) takes on Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) and Rep. Dennis Kucinitch (D-Ohio) and the anti-vaccine Congressional hearings that just assaulted Alan Guttmacher from the NIH and Colleen Boyle from the CDC.

I won’t go further into details, because this shameful travesty of truth and medical health goes on for an hour. On Forbes.com, Steven Salzberg wrote a fantastic article about this Congressional farce. I strongly urge you to read it, since Salzberg brings the hammer down on the Congresscritters who think they know more about science than the scientists who actually devote their lives to this topic.