{"id":3497,"date":"2012-10-07T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T18:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2012-10-07T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T18:09:10","slug":"us-congressman-paul-broun-practiced-medicine-without-a-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2012\/10\/07\/11\/09\/us-congressman-paul-broun-practiced-medicine-without-a-license\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congressman Paul Broun Practiced Medicine Without a License"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, confirmed dingbat, Science Denier and Chairman of the US Congress&#8217;s <a title=\"United States House Science Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_House_Science_Subcommittee_on_Investigations_and_Oversight\">Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight<\/a> of the\u00c2\u00a0<strong><a title=\"United States House Committee on Science and Technology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_House_Committee_on_Science_and_Technology\">Committee on Science and Technology<\/a><\/strong>, recently said that such things as embryology, evolution and astrophysics such as the Big Bang are &#8220;lies straight from the pit of hell&#8221; meant to deceive the righteous from their True Faith, or something similar (which is, in a way, quite similar to the argument&#8217;s made by Late Antiquity Christian apologists such as Tertullian or Justin Martyr for the similarities between the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=wMbEyeDSQQgC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;rview=1&amp;pg=PA179#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">rituals and symbolism<\/a> of other Mediterranean fertility cults, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=QRfhSBLmAK8C&amp;pg=PA147#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Mithraism<\/a>, and Christianity, that these otherwise inexplicable similarities had been &#8220;planted&#8221; by Satan, sometimes centuries before Christ, to deceive).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so I was curious: who is this chump? He&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaphysicianprofile.org\/profile.ShowProfileAction.action?lic_nbr=014465\">physician<\/a>! From his <a href=\"http:\/\/broun.house.gov\/biography\/\">official web page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For most of his career, Dr. Broun has practiced general medicine and, in 2002, he went out on his own, establishing a unique practice of full-time house calls. Dr. Broun enjoys the freedom of practicing medicine without bureaucratic encumbrances.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/services.georgia.gov\/dch\/mebs\/jsp\/index.jsp\">Georgia Medical Board<\/a>, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/services.georgia.gov\/dch\/mebs\/retrieveBoardOrder.do?licenseNumber=014465&amp;boardTypeId=2\">admonished for letting his license lapse<\/a> which meant that,for a while, &#8220;practiced as a physician without a current license&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this was part of his policy of &#8220;practicing medicine without bureaucratic encumbrances&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, confirmed dingbat, Science Denier and Chairman of the US Congress&#8217;s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the\u00c2\u00a0Committee on Science and Technology, recently said that such things as embryology, evolution and astrophysics such as&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,481],"tags":[1439,1192,1195,1368,1194,1196,1193,1443],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine","category-politics","tag-christianity","tag-lies-from-the-pit-of-hell","tag-medical-board","tag-medicine","tag-mithraism","tag-moron","tag-paul-broun","tag-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}