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Bush just hates science because it does not agree with his preconceived notions about every thing, life, global warming etc. He and his kind are all about death and destruction, they are pro-death not at all pro-life as they claim. The unknown terrifies Bush and the right wing radical theocratic fundies of the Catholic church, my church I am ashamed to say, and the white southern Baptists.

Bush is bobbing and weaving, ducking and dodging all the time. Or as to use Karl Rove's political lexicon, flip floping.

I'm afraid Leigh Ferrara's charge that President Bush has "flipflopped" on stem cell research is based on a misunderstanding. The Santorum legislation he supports (and may soon replicate through executive action) only funds research in pluripotent stem cells that are NOT obtained from embryos. The Lanza research does take cells from embryos (and it now turns out that, contrary to early reports, it does so by destroying the embryo). Lanza's approach of trying to take single cells "harmlessly" from early embryos did not arise from the President's Council on Bioethics -- in fact the Council members (including members who support ESC research) had been very critical of it, as have others, and it was not included in the legislation. You may like or not like the President's stand, but he hasn't changed that positon in the last week at all.