Christian Science and Health Reform
4th November 2009
The Los Angeles Times draws attention to news that, as part of the health-care overhaul, “A little-noticed measure would put Christian Science healing sessions on the same footing as clinical medicine.”
Tax dollars are already paying to promote unscientific medical treatments. Consider the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCCAM). Created at the behest of Senator Tom Harkin (D- Iowa), the federal unit has already spent more than $100 million to study non scientific treatments, and, it turns out, finding out that such treatments don’t work. Senator Harkin, at a hearing earlier this year, admitted as much, when complaining, “One of the purposes of this center was to investigate and validate alternative approaches. Quite frankly, I must say publicly that it has fallen short. I think quite frankly that in this center and in the office previously before it, most of its focus has been on disproving things rather than seeking out and approving.”
I can just imagine what the leftoid nutroots will say when they find this out — which they may not, given the general incompetence of the Dinosaur Media.