What a surprise...a doctor who is not a doctor is "practicing" medicine by advocating the ban of medicine and reproductive rights.

Bush Administration's war on science continues. Only this time, instead of ignoring or attacking evidence (i.e. global warming), they've dispensed with the idea that you need professional certification as a medical scientist in order to do professional medical science.

A non-doctor who says birth control is demeaning to women put up for the job of supervising Title X(?) monies. As with so many other appts by Bush -- see Michael Brown and several others, it would be hilarious if it weren't so serious.

Seriously, if a non-board certified vet was nominated for an administrative position in the USDA you'd be damn sure to see an uproar among not only animal health specialists, but also the meat industry, the horse racing industry, etc. But, since this is to do with WOMEN, less valuable than either red meat or race horses, they aren't being called out by professional peers as they ought to. If an immunologist were appointed to an oncology position, there would be a mighty uproar, but again, vaginas? Birth-control? Fuck it.

Yes well, if your goal is to clean up those shameless trollops and their filthy vaginas, doesn't it kinda make sense to appoint a giant douche?

Wait a minute. I think this appointment is as inappropriate as anyone does, but some comments refer to the nominee as a non-doctor. A lapse in board certification in a particular specialty is quite a different matter from not being licensed as a physician generally.