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Saul Relative

you're awesome.

Damon, keep it up. Together we can expand our audience. Together, that is, with people like Hemlocker, Saul Relative and many other critics of the status quo...

posted by Dylan24 on November 3, 2005 at 7:03 PM | link to this | reply

Lovely People...

...many thanks for your comments.

I would love to get this stuff out to a wider audience (and I hope lots of people will buy Chris Mooney's book - he's the one who did the primary research here, not me). However, I have limited access to that wider audience, and limited time right now.

But I'll work on it, for sure.

Thanks again for the encouragement.

D

posted by DamonLeigh on November 2, 2005 at 3:27 AM | link to this | reply

An excellent post, DamonLeigh, and one chock full of facts. Your

research (or memory, or both) is quite expansive and amazing. And I echo Hemlocker and Dylan_Valente -- please keep throwing those facts out there. Added to the fact that Bush has used an executive order to appropriate and administer billions of dollars to 'faith-based initiative' organizations and programs, there is little doubt as to what the president thinks of science.

posted by saul_relative on November 1, 2005 at 10:17 PM | link to this | reply

Ditto Hemlocker many times over...

This administration doesn't like science that doesn't support its theology.

If we didn't already know that the Earth is round, Mr. Bush wouldn't be the one to tell us - and not just because he would be the last to have learned the fact anyway. Mr. Ashcroft would be the one crucifying Galileo. Mr. Rove would be the one explaining to us that it's best to teach both sides of the controversy between flat-Earth and round-Earth theory. 

You're correct that the stem-cell lines in question came from already discarded embryos, which is an important distinction because when there is no chance of the embryo coming to fruition, it seems right to use it for the benefit of human health.

posted by Dylan24 on November 1, 2005 at 7:46 PM | link to this | reply

Damon

This is the sort of thing, researched even further, with many references to legitimate research, which needs to appear in as many venues as possible.  A few people might read this on Blogit, and it won't make much difference.  You need to write more about the anti-science, anti-health, safety, nutritional, etc, etc regulation stance of this administration, and submit to sources where many more people will read.  This is a start, and I'm glad you wrote this, but much more is needed.  Thanks. 

posted by Hemlocker on November 1, 2005 at 3:04 PM | link to this | reply