political designs

Apparently Dr. Bill Frist is willing to do anything to get back into the good graces of the right wing leadership. After a number of political missteps, including misdiagnosing Terry Schiavo via videotape and angering the right wing by endorsing the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, Frist is apparently willing to embrace pseudoscience in an attempt to preserve his conservative credentials.

According to the AP, the good doctor has "said 'intelligent design' should be taught in public schools alongside evolution."

Over at the Onion, they are on the same page as Frist and they make the case that the theory of gravity is not as airtight as it could be and recommend some reasonable modifications to the scientific literature.

KANSAS CITY, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.