Who would have thought that President-elect Obama’s plan to nominate Dr. Sanjay Gupta as the next Surgeon General would be so controversial? Paul Krugman thinks Gupta wrongly criticized Michael Moore’s film Sicko and Chris Mooney didn’t like Gupta’s sensationalist coverage of the Raelians’ cloning claims. More signficantly, Rep. John Conyers is seeking to line up opposition to a Gupta nomination among House Democrats because the medical journalist “lacks the requisite experience needed to oversee the federal agency that provides crucial health care assistance.”