I never thought that I’d include the words “Surgeon General” and “interesting” in the same sentence, but that’s certainly a good adjective to describe the testimony of former Surgeon General Comona before a House panel on Tuesday. That he was subject to political, uh, management in the course of his tenure doesn’t surprise me (the extent of it is a different matter). His job is, after all, a political appointment. What is more interesting is to see the areas in which the White House wanted to control what Dr. Comona was up to. Embryonic stem cells, well, that’s hardly astonishing (whatever one’s views), but some of the others….

Read the report (yes, it’s the NY Times) and judge for yourself.

It’s also not uninteresting to read this report (and, no it doesn’t prove anything) and then revisit the controversy over Leon Kass that we were discussing on The Corner the other day.