Cody
15374 days ago
False claims. Bush wouldn't invest in stem cell technology allowing other countries to pull ahead of us. I think Kansas banned teaching evolution and stickers are put on books in some states that say evolution is just a theory.
Ryan
15374 days ago
Bush didn't ban stem cell research, he cut funding for the National Science Foundation to research infant stem cell research (which have produced nothing of note in any country ever, btw). He also increased funding overall for NASA and for the NSF. Science funding under Bush II was the highest it has been under any president in history.
Also, Clinton cancelled the SSC, which would have been one of the crowing achievements of mankind.
I'm so sick of this "zomfg the republicans are anti SCIENCE!".
First - the are about 55 Million registered republicans...trying to say that they all think exactly the same on every issue (especially when there are only two real parties) is beyond retarded and borders on malice.
Second - Those people who didn't want evolution taught in schools are crazy, but they're entitled to being crazy! No, I don't like lawmakers dictating what is correct and not in the field of evolutionary biology, but I also don't like lawmakers telling my children that the school of ethical thought (known as religion, to most) that I am teaching them is "stupid" either.
Basically: STFU!
Also, Clinton cancelled the SSC, which would have been one of the crowing achievements of mankind.
I'm so sick of this "zomfg the republicans are anti SCIENCE!".
First - the are about 55 Million registered republicans...trying to say that they all think exactly the same on every issue (especially when there are only two real parties) is beyond retarded and borders on malice.
Second - Those people who didn't want evolution taught in schools are crazy, but they're entitled to being crazy! No, I don't like lawmakers dictating what is correct and not in the field of evolutionary biology, but I also don't like lawmakers telling my children that the school of ethical thought (known as religion, to most) that I am teaching them is "stupid" either.
Basically: STFU!
Cody
15374 days ago
Republicans are like a dog that shits all over your house. They are the reason we can't have anything nice. I'm just kidding Ryan this article was a specific issue and not republicans in general. I'm sick of living in this banana republic.
Ryan
15374 days ago
Ryan
15374 days ago
Your move, Cody.
Cody
15374 days ago
You sunk my battleship.
Ryan
15374 days ago
YOu know that if there was a way to have that as your driver's license photo, you would.
luke
15374 days ago
The cutting of federal funding was a moral decision, not one based on intelligent design. Not a crazy one if you ask me either.
Cody
15374 days ago
False. It was political pressure by Christian fundamentalists on the far right of the republican party.AKA people with Sarah Palin for president T-Shirts. Japan and other countries jumped ahead of us because of this lack of funding. If you seriously want to argue Bush's key concern was morals I LOL@you. You're right the intelligent design is a different issue all together. It's supported by the same people who oppose stem cell research except their arguments for their position are possibly even more stupid.
Ryan
15374 days ago
What, exactly, has Japan jumped ahead of us on?
To my knowledge there has never been a single thing of worth that has come out of infant stem cell research.
The stuff that is promising is from adult stem-cells (which bush didn't cut funding for). The "zomfg the repubs hate scyenc!" crap is a total lie perpetrated by the left as a way of drawing a line in the sand and being able to stand on the other side of it.
To my knowledge there has never been a single thing of worth that has come out of infant stem cell research.
The stuff that is promising is from adult stem-cells (which bush didn't cut funding for). The "zomfg the repubs hate scyenc!" crap is a total lie perpetrated by the left as a way of drawing a line in the sand and being able to stand on the other side of it.
It has also never effected anything that I, or anybody I know (and I know people that work in biological research), have ever don.