Politicized Science May Make Us Sicker

When the actor Christopher Reeve, who’d been gravely injured in a horse-riding accident in 1995, died in 2004, Democrats wasted no time turning the actor’s paralysis into a political talking point.

“If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we can do when [John] Kerry is president,” said vice-presidential nominee John Edwards in Iowa, “people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.”