Dare we say "Turning the Corner" on science education in schools?

In Texas, that bastion of fuzzy-headed liberalism, a school board finally came down on the side of good science and shot creationism in the face.

It's a sad day when creationist, who claim to be Christians, resort to misprepresentation and outright lying to push their agenda.

Maybe now the ridiculous political religious agendas that have undermined our education system will be consigned to history.

We'll see.

Anxiety disorders more prevalent than we realize

About one fifth of all patients visiting a doctor suffer from an anxiety disorder.

Anxiety disorders go untreated so often that we scarcely realize the trouble they cause.

Medically, they account for a significant portion of patients presenting with pain or other symptom.

My suspicion is that humans carry a predisposition to certain anxiety disorders from our evolutionary past. Those without the hyper-vigilance caused by anxiety were often the first ones eaten by a predator. Hyper-vigilance causes one to be more cautious too, so it can have a positive effect in small doses.

The downside: Hyper-vigilance associated with anxiety causes sufferers to sense greater physiological issues leading to more self-diagnosis of health problems. Ultimately, anxiety results in more doctor visits.