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[Skötkonung]

http://news.bbc.co.u...lth/7828800.stm

Good article, I just hope the evanglicals don't have their way!

[niner]

http://news.bbc.co.u...lth/7828800.stm

Good article, I just hope the evanglicals don't have their way!

They had their way for eight years, and look where it got us. Here's what one of them has to say, from the article:

Dr Robert Evans is the founder of a new church, so new it holds its services in a school hall in Pleasanton California.

As pastor at Christ Church and a bio-ethicist, he is disturbed by the new freedoms scientists may be given.

"What it signals is that the human embryo has been denied moral standing and a corresponding right to life.

"As an evangelical who believes all life is created equal in the image of God, and that we have moral standing from the moment of conception, I would view that as a very chilling decision."

[Drifter]

Good news:

http://news.bbc.co.u...lth/7847450.stm

Whatever your political orientation, you have to admit that Obamha seems to be pro science. He hasn't waisted any time with this either!

[VictorBjoerk]

this is very good, it is a great pity that it has been delayed so long.Things are improving.

[Cyberbrain]

Good news:

http://news.bbc.co.u...lth/7847450.stm

Whatever your political orientation, you have to admit that Obamha seems to be pro science. He hasn't waisted any time with this either!

Indeed, this is a Red Letter Day!

[Mixter]

Well, from http://www.whitehous...nda/technology:

# Invest in the Sciences: Double federal funding for basic research over ten years, changing the posture of our federal government to one that embraces science and technology.
# Invest in University-Based Research: Expand research initiatives at American colleges and universities. Provide new research grants to the most outstanding early-career researchers in the country.

But let's see if he lives up to the promises in sciences, they could actually be something worthwile and realistic.
Most other promises not involving small government are as boring as the constant bombardment with the 0maba
propaganda, but IF there will really be sustained increase of funding over years, or better a law which sets that into
stone, and enough of that in aging-/life science then I might buy a 0m4ba statue and set up a little praying shrine for him too. :-P

Amazing, by not being that aggressively anti-science, the democrats even have one real advantage in the demopublican system.

[mentatpsi]

...
but IF there will really be sustained increase of funding over years, or better a law which sets that into
stone, and enough of that in aging-/life science then I might buy a 0m4ba statue and set up a little praying shrine for him too. :-P
...

You haven't made a shrine yet?! I've been applying the secrets of The Secret to pray for increased science research and academic funding, and by the cosmos themselves look what i've been granted! I must say it does work. The only problem is when you have extreme rightist that pray for opposite things... then we battle it out on the metaphysical plane... with swords... they use regular steel technologies and i go for the nanotech ones...

Now for that mansion ...

[Dmitri]

http://news.bbc.co.u...lth/7828800.stm

Good article, I just hope the evanglicals don't have their way!

Yesterday on the news they announced the white house had agreed to allow stem cells, they also claimed they were going to experiment on 10 volunteers and if the therapy was successful you would see stem cell therapies available to the public in the next 6-8 years.