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Day 50: Obama strives to separate religion and science

You’d think religious objections to scientific research would have ended with the invention of penicillin. As President Obama reversed the Bush administration’s limits on embryonic stem-cell research, he said scientific decisions must be “based on facts, not ideology.” The president on Monday signaled a clear shift in tone from the Bush administration on a broad [...]

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Day 25: Obama to allow Federal funding of stem cell reseach

The scientific community is all atwitter this weekend as news spread that Obama is getting ready to lift the prohibition on the Federal government from funding stem cell research. Expect conservative fundamentalists to roll out the old “snowflake baby” argument by this time next week. U.S. President Barack Obama will soon issue an executive order [...]

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