Altering Reality

This is a very official and authoritative seeming medical organization that supports conservatives, but when you take a closer look you see what follows is but the tip of the iceberg.

The AAPS statement of principles declares that it is "evil" and "immoral" for physicians to participate in Medicare and Medicaid, and its journal is a repository for quackery. Its website features claims that tobacco taxes harm public health and electronic medical records are a form of "data control" like that employed by the East German secret police. An article on the AAPS website speculated that Barack Obama may have won the presidency by hypnotizing voters, especially cohorts known to be susceptible to "neurolinguistic programming"—that is, according to the writer, young people, educated people, and possibly Jews.

The Tea Party's Favorite Doctors

And here's a nice little chart. Fewer people all the time believe that global warming exists. Not whether humans have caused it, but whether it even exists. It's a simple fact verified by scientific data that the average global temperature has gone up in the past 100 years, yet only a bare majority of conservatives believe it.

Chart of the Day