The Republican War on Science

Seed Magazine ^ | Chris Mooney

[furball4paws]

http://www.waronscience.com/excerpt.php?p=1

Chapter 1: The Threat IN THE SUMMER OF 2001, long before his reelection and even before he became a "wartime president," George W. Bush found himself in a political tight spot. He responded with a morsel of scientific misinformation so stunning, so certain to be exposed by enterprising journalists (as indeed it was), that one can only wonder what Bush and his handlers were thinking, or whether they were thinking at all. The issue was embryonic stem cell research, and Bush's nationally televised claim—that "more than sixty genetically diverse" embryonic stem cell lines existed at the time of his statement—counts as one of the most flagrant purely scientific deceptions ever perpetrated by a U.S. president on an unsuspecting public. Bush's assertion, made on August 9, 2001, came as the president sought to escape a political trap of his own making. Campaigning in 2000, Bush told the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that taxpayer money "should not underwrite research that involves the destruction of live human embryos." The statement threw a bone to Bush's pro-life followers, who view the ball of about one hundred fifty cells constituting a five-day-old embryo as deserving of the same moral and legal protections as fully developed human beings. Accordingly, these religious conservatives consider embryonic stem cell research—the study of excess embryos donated for research from in vitro fertilization clinics—ethically abhorrent. But some prominent Republicans, such as Utah senator Orrin Hatch, favored the research because of its scientific promise. As the issue came to a head in the summer of 2001, Bush publicly agonized over what to do. Finally, he opted for a supposed compromise: he would allow federal funding, but only for research on preexisting cell lines.

[Mamzelle]

This isn't Moore, just one of his clones. Soros has invested hugely in these amateur filmmaking outfits--it'll be interesting to see how this one is financed. But it's clear that the left thinks it has a winning issue here--have you been following former NJ guv Christie? She "wants her party back."

[RunningWolf]

But it's clear that the left thinks it has a winning issue here.

Well we have certainly seen that here

She does does she? Well she can get over to the party of Dean and Hilary (Dean scream eeeeaaaarrrghhhh!!)

I think this will backfire on the left in a big way.

And as our Pres says 'Bring it on' and 'Anytime Baby' borrowing the Pukin Dog squadron ping

Wolf

[Liz]

Soros and Moore? Another version of "The Odd Couple."

[RunningWolf]

Only they have not waken up yet.

To them he and Soros still look like the latest movie celebrity sex hunk!

Wolf