Wanted: More Scientists

As posted a few days ago ("Church Gives State the Noogie"), the Ohio State legislature is having difficulty distinguishing between science, medicine and religion. As in the rest of the nation, the Republicans are having more of a problem than the Democrats, but as The Post notes in its article, "The Legislature has many attorneys but no one who lists a medical degree or occupation as a physician. There is one veterinarian, two nurses, a clinical psychologist and a mortician. With so little science background..."

We live in a world of rapid scientific and technological change. Maybe we should have more scientifically and technologically fluent people in political office. Maybe we need more scientists and engineers instead of lawyers.