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If you've been outraged by the Republican Party's position on Intelligent Design , you should display equal outrage that Mr. Obama appointed a very publicly religious individual to head the National Institutes of Health. Intellectual honesty is de rigueur here.

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If you've been outraged by the Republican Party's position on Intelligent Design , you should display equal outrage that Mr. Obama appointed a very publicly religious individual to head the National Institutes of Health. Intellectual honesty is de rigueur here.
By Cody on 2009-08-25 | 11 comments


1 Ryan | 2009-08-26
What is the republican party's position on intelligent design? I'm an active member, and it has never come up at any of our top-secret meetings...
It has also never effected anything that I, or anybody I know (and I know people that work in biological research), have ever don.
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1 Commander Cody | 2009-08-26
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.

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1 Ryan | 2009-08-26
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!
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1 Commander Cody | 2009-08-26
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.
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1 Ryan | 2009-08-26
bananacody
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1 Ryan | 2009-08-26
Your move, Cody.
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1 Commander Cody | 2009-08-26
You sunk my battleship.
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1 Ryan | 2009-08-26
YOu know that if there was a way to have that as your driver's license photo, you would.
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1 luke | 2009-08-26
The cutting of federal funding was a moral decision, not one based on intelligent design. Not a crazy one if you ask me either.
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1 Commander Cody | 2009-08-26
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.

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1 Ryan | 2009-09-23
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.
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