You can expect weird things when Vernon Robinson and Brad Miller engage in debate. But it got really weird when Robinson said

Miller, the Democratic incumbent, has San Francisco values and that he’s a liberal who supported a medical study in which teenage girls would be shown pornography to measure levels of arousal.

Miller said that Robinson’s claims are “outlandish.”

He voted against an amendment in 2003 aimed at stopping the National Institutes of Health from conducting five studies, including one that involved the sexual arousal of women. Miller said that it is better to let scientists make decisions about research, not politicians.

The Journal article covering the debate didn’t elaborate on the study, so we don’t know whether or not teenagers participated in the study. By the same token, if Miller voted against an amendment stopping the study, is that not the same thng as supporting the study?