US Representative Scarborough gave a special order speech titled “Defining Deviancy, Up and Down” in which he allowed other Representatives the opportunity to share thoughts on changing standards in society. Dr. Paul made this comment.

Mr. PAUL. Yes, I find your conversation very interesting, and it reminds me of a incident that occurred not too many years ago.

I am a physician. I graduated from medical school in 1961, and at that particular time they decided that saying the Hippocratic oath was no longer necessary, and I did not recite the Hippocratic oath at my graduation.

But when my son graduated there in 1988, they allowed us to come back to say the Hippocratic oath. We were given that chance to come back because they were saying it once again, and I was very interested in this, so I went to his graduation, and at the ceremony they were reciting the Hippocratic oath. And lo and behold, when I looked carefully at it, it was not the same oath. They had changed the clause on abortion. It did not say that you should not use an instrument to do an abortion. They merely said you should follow the law, whatever the law is.

So I thought that was a interesting little story to support your case that truth seems to be easily revised in this day and age.

Mr. SCARBOROUGH. I thank the gentleman. And revisionism occurs all the time, and we are told…

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