other blog-Science-does it have a future in America?,ahThink back

     Nostalgia, ah don't you remember it. Back before flights to the moon, StarTrek, even before the pill,  it always makes one stop and maybe smile a bit, thinking of those times. Lets call them your own 'good old days'. Yes back to the time when science and medicine seemed to go hand in hand, building a better life for us all, research and advancements increasing knowledge, and we received benefits(and some misfortunes) that only a generation before, were unheard of. Think back to a time when not all cars had power windows and AC, when phones were attached to the wall and to change the volume or channel on a TV you had to get up and walk. Yup, 'good old days'. Science just keeps sciencing, and medicine just keeps medic....wait, enough of all this, I think we pretty much get the idea of attaining knowledge...pretty much, but there does seem to be some, well let's call them doubters, out there.
    Okay now's the time to settle in and let the mind wander a tad, close your eyes(yeah, I know, science hasn't yet figured out how to close your eyes and read simultaneously, but I need some imagination here) and think of some of the various past and present hospital shows on television. ER, House or even back to St. Elsewhere or Marcus Welby, yeah WAY back, Okay think of some more, and try to think of the doctors concentrate, you're getting sleepy and the only thing you hear is a loudspeaker blaring...Dr. HOWARD, Dr, FINE Dr. HOWARD---DR. HOWARD  Dr. FINE  Dr. HOWARD--- yeah THOSE doctors, man all the patients were in good hands when they showed up, just feel the confidence. Nostalgia...feels warm and fuzzy.
    Okay hang on to those memories and fling yourself forward to 2012. The country is immersed in election fever and science and medicine are not the cure, well not in some states anyway.Missouri, Indiana and Georgia all possess citizens that their politicians feel are best qualified for positions of government leadership.Men who show an amazing grasp of science and medicine.
    Imagine yourself in the terrible position of having to need counselling and medical care after a sexual assault. You are in a medical facility and you hear on the loudspeaker   Dr. AKIN  Dr. MORDOCK  Dr. BROUN , they arrive in your room and the treatment goes something like this:
     " We heard what happened and hurried over. You're not pregnant are you, because another doctor told me you could stop it if you needed to. Your body has ways to stop it, I heard that from doctors, they know about these things, and ergo so do I."
    "Well, not to worry, because if you are, its God's plan and that means you're okay. I mean God intended it so there you go."
    "I know, for a fact, that all this science and medical stuff and evolution, all these came from Hell, so your're in good hands with these two, good hands. Not to worry."
    Yup, these are three of the bright lights that are hoping to run your country, makes you wonder, how hard did they look to find these guys.  It couldn't have been easy. That GOP, they load em up and fire away and we just try to stay out of the line of fire.
    Now in all fairness its not just the GOP, yes that's right, the Dems dug one up, well he's already there. Frighteningly he's also from Georgia and already in Congress. Check out the video of Hank Johnson and how he's worried about Guam tipping over from too many troops or sailors or clouds or whatever...amazing. There must be something in the peaches or crackers.
     Nostalgia, sometimes it befuddles the brain, like right now its got me thinking that smartest guys in the room might be Curley, Larry and Moe.