Monday, March 09, 2009
A President Who Actually Encourages Science?!
After 8 years of Flat Earth-like ignorance and willful stupidity emanating from the White House, this sort of thing can almost take your breath away. Wow! If post-19th century thinking like this isn't curtailed, pretty soon Americans will stop believing that HIV is just God's punishment for homosexuality, that all of our natural resources are boundless, and that the planet is only six thousand years old. And then what the Hell will the Conservatives ever campaign on?
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Wow, that is seriously a huge change in direction! Fox News must be having conniptions over this. It is so interesting to see a President keep his campaign promises...and without a majority in Congress. Truly amazing. On the downside though I'm already worrying about Republicans getting back in office as they will then have a mandate to undo all of this. Yikes.
I was pretty amazed by some of the negative comments reported on CBC news. I guess I shouldn't be, but they are using the tired tactic of saying "permitting this will increase abortions" and "these embryos represent a life, even those that can't be taken to term." There is a big difference between making a market out of something versus drawing boundaries.
Now the researchers in Canada who aren't getting any money from government funding have a reason to go to the US to do work.
What this tells me is that the Canadian government should be more mindful of research in Canada. They are neglecting it in an age when the research economy will be important.
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