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How does the Bush administration find "qualified" scientists? No surprise, but it's nice to see in print:

Two recently appointed members to the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research, Dr. Richard Myers of Stanford University in California and Dr. George Weinstock of Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, said they had been asked inappropriate questions when they were nominated.

Weinstock said a staffer at the Health and Human Services Department called to ask "leading political questions."

"There is no doubt in my mind that these questions represented a political litmus test," he said in a statement.

Myers said he received a similar call in which he was asked about his opinion of embryonic stem cell research, which the White House opposes.

"Then the staffer asked questions that really shocked me," Myers is quoted as saying in the report. "She wanted to know what I thought about President Bush: Did I like him, what did I think of the job he was doing."
(via Reuters)

I don't see what the big deal is here.

What these so-called "scientists" don't understand, or are unwilling to see, is this: Since Bush is Chosen of God to Lead the country, how could it be inappropriate to question them regarding this Ultimate Truth?