the peter principle stacks the deck against science  August 31,
2012 — 2 Comments  bad idea  According to the famous Peter
Principle, everyone eventually rises to a level of incompetence
in an organization and nowhere does it seem to be more true than
in Congress. As pointed out by many reporters, Todd Akin’s
breathtakingly dimwitted commentary on rape wasn’t just alarming
because it gave us a terrifying peek into the mindset of someone
who wants to regulate the life and health of women across the
country, but because it came out of the mouth of someone who
sits on the House Science and Technology committee, a
legislative body that’s responsible for helping to drive the
engine of First World growth. One would think that if you sit on
a post that basically gives you enormous power over the nation’s
scientific and technological path, you’d at least know how to do
a search on whether women can or can’t get pregnant from rape.
Even more disturbing is that he has equally scientifically
illiterate colleagues. Eight