Opinion: American politics is full of medical doctors with insane ideas

Some day, an academic historian will write the definitive history of how, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, American politics became so thick with medical doctors who ascribe to crazy ideas. First among them, of course, will be former Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia, who told a local sportsmen's banquet back home that everything he'd learned in medical school was a tool of the devil in one way or another.