It's funny because Frist paints himself as the GOP's science expert and between this and diagnosing Schiavo using a very old video clip, it gives a curious impression of the GOP as a party of reason.
Vernon Ehlers and Roscoe Bartlett are both scientists, and we should hear more from them on these issues. Maybe they do speak out more, but they don't get half the press that the Dem's Rush Holt does, because the last think the MSM wants people to think is that conservative scientists and pro-evolution conservatives actually exist.