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...just not qualified. He has served on the D.C. Court of Appeals for only one year--and written only one opinion in that position. Before that, he was a controversial administrator whose record proved only that he agreed with Ronald Reagan that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was a useless organization. Thomas is not much of a legal scholar--certainly not one of the nine best in the nation...
...medical- school professors had obediently followed suit. The reluctance of the so- called back-crackers to submit their technique to the scrutiny of hard science served only to reinforce the official scorn. Recalls Shekelle: "They were seen as hucksters and charlatans trying to dupe the public into paying for useless care...
Worse Than Useless...
...skewed the whole debate," says Kramer, who calls the project "worse than useless." "It focused attention on the role of the West, which is really peripheral. We can't make them reform," he says...
More than anyone else except the French, Americans have been infected by the delusion that strict laws are necessary to protect people from themselves. The nation's statute books are crammed with millions of useless and largely unenforceable regulations, like the one in Seattle that bars flu sufferers from going out in public. Most of the rules are ignored, but their existence is a constant source of inspiration to the puritanically minded...