This administration (and I'm talking about the US's Obama administration) told us that they were going to separate the science and the politics. Well, I'm still waiting for them to do something about this embryonic stem cells (ES) discussion that is still going around.
Previous administration banned the use of federal money (by the way, that's our money) to be used for creation of ES, since it destroys an embryo... and bunch of 'smart' people complained saying that the Bush administration brought morality into politics and then to science (and apparently that's bad). If you think about it, that is a rather 'not so smart' argument, since at the end of the day those people are just the same... they want to bring in their morality (or lack of it) in to politics and then to science.
Meanwhile, the world moves on with the iPS (or induced pluripotent stem cell). So far, a) I have not heard ANY argument opposing iPS based on moral argument, b) appears as flexible as the embryonic stem cells and c) even safer to use on human application. So WHY IS THE US STILL ARGUING ABOUT EMRYONICS STEMCELLS and using our money to fund it?
If this administration truly wants to separate politics and science, why are we still bickering about this issue, when we can put all funds to iPS research, which there is NO moral argument and all the same benefit? Based on their action, I have to assume that they are funding the ES research for one purpose only... to satisfy those who actually could care less about human life.
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