President Obama: Anti-Science.
One of the most infuriating arguments that President Obama made in the 2008 election was that President Bush and his administration were "anti-science". It appeared as though this charge was mainly aimed at the ban for federal funding on stem-cell research.
In an incredibly in-elegant and classless display (surprising actually considering I find the man quite classy and elegant) President Obama used the occasion of his inaugural address to make this charge while his predecessor sat eight feet away. And, true to form, within weeks of his swearing in, President Obama used the power of the Executive Order to institute federal funding for stem-cell research. His supporters rejoiced and some Republicans who were uncomfortable with being labeled "anti-science" because it made them feel like they were arguing that the world was flat quietly cheered as well.
But hold on a second progressives. Wait just a minute all of you "pro-science" Republicans. Did anyone catch this part of President Obama's speech made the day he lifted the ban on funding?:
Ummm... isn't this a little bit ANTI-SCIENCE? If Michael J. Fox were to believe that the cure for Parkinson's disease could be discovered through human cloning, would he make a commercial supporting it?
President Obama labels human cloning as "dangerous, profoundly wrong, and has no place in our society, or any society". But, why? Why is it so wrong? And, more importantly, why is he allowed to draw HIS moral line in the sand at cloning and not be considered "anti-science" yet President Bush drew HIS line in the sand at stem-cell research and he is a reactionary neanderthal worthy of ridicule as a back-woods rube holding back medicine in deference to make-believe Gods?
Why? Oh, you know why.
In an incredibly in-elegant and classless display (surprising actually considering I find the man quite classy and elegant) President Obama used the occasion of his inaugural address to make this charge while his predecessor sat eight feet away. And, true to form, within weeks of his swearing in, President Obama used the power of the Executive Order to institute federal funding for stem-cell research. His supporters rejoiced and some Republicans who were uncomfortable with being labeled "anti-science" because it made them feel like they were arguing that the world was flat quietly cheered as well.
But hold on a second progressives. Wait just a minute all of you "pro-science" Republicans. Did anyone catch this part of President Obama's speech made the day he lifted the ban on funding?:
"We cannot ever tolerate misuse or abuse. And we will ensure that our government never opens the door to the use of cloning for human reproduction," Obama said. "It is dangerous, profoundly wrong, and has no place in our society, or any society."
Ummm... isn't this a little bit ANTI-SCIENCE? If Michael J. Fox were to believe that the cure for Parkinson's disease could be discovered through human cloning, would he make a commercial supporting it?
President Obama labels human cloning as "dangerous, profoundly wrong, and has no place in our society, or any society". But, why? Why is it so wrong? And, more importantly, why is he allowed to draw HIS moral line in the sand at cloning and not be considered "anti-science" yet President Bush drew HIS line in the sand at stem-cell research and he is a reactionary neanderthal worthy of ridicule as a back-woods rube holding back medicine in deference to make-believe Gods?
Why? Oh, you know why.
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