GOP lawmaker sees cancer as a ‘fungus’
The relationship between Republicans and modern science has become strained lately. In recent months, we’ve seen GOP officials – including senators, governors, and presidential candidates – balk at climate science, contraception, vaccinations, post-bathroom hand-washing, and even evolutionary biology.
This week is becoming especially egregious on this front. We were introduced to a Republican state lawmaker in Idaho who seemed quite confused about women’s anatomy, and Jon Ralston added a new addition to the collection yesterday, highlighting the latest from Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R), who has a proposal to change existing rules on end-of-life care.
Fiore, who operates a home health care business that sometimes passes payroll taxes onto the IRS, said she knew of friends who left the country to find end-of-life treatments that are not FDA-approved. And then the payoff:http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-lawmaker-sees-cancer-fungus
“If you have cancer, which I believe is a fungus,” she began, citing a widely debunked theory that the American Cancer Society warns about, ”and we can put a pic line into your body and we’re flushing with, say, salt water, sodium cardonate [I think she means bicarbonate], through that line and flushing out the fungus. These are some procedures that are not FDA-approved in America that are very inexpensive, cost-effective.<...>”
What in the fuck is with these people? Science is even lower on their priority list than history.
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approve for use against cancer.
Pope John XXI forbade thinking that there were scientific laws, as such notions contradicted the omnipotence of gawd. He was subsequently killed when one of those forbidden laws, namely gravity, manifested itself and the roof of the church he was in collapsed. Who says the cosmos doesn't have a sense of irony? 
