Only In Florida (legislature tries to pass another Intelligent design bill)

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Originally Posted by Betonov

The difference we actually have use for ciropractors, but they are not supposed to prescribe drugs.
ID people are usefull only as side guards on a ship, you tie a rope around their neck and throw the overboard while in port

We have as much use of chiropractors as ID people.

They claim that all disease (all) can be treated by spinal manipulation. No chiropractic has unambiguous controlled studies showing any efficacy. Are there real medical treatments of ambiguous efficacy when they start? Sure. But not ALL real medical practice.

Chiropractic is no more "medical" than crystal healing. The NM democrats voted party line to support it as "real" medicine in the house. Luckily it got killed in a senate committee because of a single democrat who wasn't a loon.

This is not to dilute the idiocy of ID, and any laws conflating ID with science, which is transcendent . I'm just saying that you get emotion and irrationality on both sides of the aisle, just different subjects. You could add much of "environmentalism" and AGW to that as well (note that I think AGW is an entirely legitimate hypothesis, and I'm willing to be 100% on board once they have a robust, predictive model the demonstrates itself vs real observations, not vs other models—I remain scientifically skeptical until then, but completely open-minded to it (I think it is too politicized (by a lot) right now as a field, which is much of the problem)). Environmentalism is also very often entirely irrational—and I consider myself a VERY strict environmentalist from a libertarian POV... pollute as much as you like on YOUR property, but if so much as 1 part per billion touches MY property, you are invading my sovereignty. This libertarian-enviro viewpoint is 100% consistent, and requires no government fiat. Do what you like, then if I detect any evidence of your pollution, I sue you for everything you have.