US ambassador killed over a film

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WHY DOES THIS PERSON SERVE ON A SCIENCE COMMITTEE?

He's an M.D, and his undergraduate degree is in Chemistry.

http://broun.house.gov/biography/

An MD is not a PhD and an undergraduate degree also doesn't make you a scientist. But I will not be childish about this one he probably came into contact with more science than many of his peers.
Still it is a mystery to me how someone with such views can study chemistry. Because yes, everything you learn during a chemistry undergrad course goes againts religioous beliefs.

"...serves as Chairman of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee for the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee."

It's the House of Representatives, and he represents a conservative part of Georgia. Surely, they can suffer one flat earther??? He's certainly counter balanced by ....

http://science.house.gov/about/membership

No, after reviewing the biographies of about a half a dozen, none leap out at me as being much opposed to what Rep. Broun would be saying. Perhaps he is the extreme view, but he's not very alone there. And... he's actually more qualified than most of his peers to be there since he's actually got more science in his background.

Found one. Rep. Jerry McNerney seems a good fit.

No but all joking and nittpicking aside, this is very serious. How can a country allow people with such views to have so much power. I mean, the whole outrage against the Taliban or muslims protests seems to me very hypocritical. You have in your representative bodies people that have exact the same views as the taliban have (of course you only have to change the word god for allah, but for the rest the same). Some of his republican colleagues also continue spouting BS by saying women can't get pregnant when they are raped, and often they actually ask for it!?.

But as an important note. Also in Holland we have around 3 % of parliament who say the earth is just a few 1000 years old, and even more than believe evolution isn't real.

I think our next peace mission to some arab country should consist solely of these christian extremists....with a bit of luck they like they way the muslims counterparts are handling things and stay there.