Regarding the point made about stem cell research, I find it rather interesting how there is such hypocrisy flying around this administration.
On the one hand, you have the administration booting a top researcher like Elizabeth Blackburn off of of the bioethics committee:
Scientist Lauded After Gov't Fires Her
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But, then on the other hand, you have the Pentagon bankrolling stem cell research in Sweden because the work on Parkinson's disease may provide some treatments for neurological disease caused by neuro-toxin weaponry.
Pentagon Bankrolls Swedish Stem Cell Study
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What's going on here? The administration thinks it's okay when embryonic stem cell research has an application to further its combat goals, but it doesn't like it when the same science is applied to cancer research? Or maybe it's just that it's okay if the "dirty work" gets done in some "other pagan nation" and not on God-fearing American soil.
Kind of makes you wonder just how long it will be until top scientists start accepting offers from research labs in other countries (actually, many have already left -- the same thing has happened before under other U.S. administrations).
Also seems strange to me that an administration that is so opposed to tinkering with human genetics, is so solidly behind genetic engineering for agriculture and is actually going out of its way to shove that technology down the throats of people living in other countries around the world. So, it's okay to mess around with plant and animal DNA, but not with human DNA, etc...
Very odd how this gang like to have everything their own way when it comes to science if it will benefit their friends in the chemical, agri-business and weapons industry, but not when it might actually help to find a cure for cancer, severe spinal injuries, etc... Well, you know what they say, just like war, cancer is good business. The more of it the better for the hospitals and drug companies. Can't have someone coming up with a cure and messing things up, y'know?
This is becoming so very depressing. |
