The recent flap over Michele Bachmann's claim that the HPV vaccine causes mental retardation shows the mendacity of Bachmann and much of the GOP as well. Bachmann first made the claim then she backed off of it, saying she wasn't "attesting" to it's being true or not. Now we have to believe that someone who has gone through law school and gotten a degree can't be stupid. So then that means that Bachmann doesn't care about the truth about a statement, she'll just throw something out there to make it appear that she has won the argument. That can only be a case of wilfull deceptiveness.
It's not simply Bachmann. Notice Rick Perry saying that he doesn't "believe" in evolution or global warming. Does Rick Perry believe in Gravity? Does he believe the Earth is flat?
Here is the problem. This country's economic survival is dependent upon science and technology. But how can we have scientific and technological development with leadership that is not only ignorant of but hostile to science?
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