What is Obama doing? » science http://www.whatisobamadoing.com Keeping Track of Barack Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:13:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Day 50: Obama strives to separate religion and science http://www.whatisobamadoing.com/2009/03/10/day-50-obama-strives-to-separate-religion-and-science/ http://www.whatisobamadoing.com/2009/03/10/day-50-obama-strives-to-separate-religion-and-science/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:03:04 +0000 Paul -V- http://www.whatisobamadoing.com/?p=366 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 range of scientific issues.

Obama overturned an order signed by President Bush in 2001 that barred the National Institutes of Health from funding research on embryonic stem cells beyond using 60 cell lines that existed at that time.

Story by CNN

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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 lifting an eight-year ban embryonic stem cell research imposed by his predecessor, President George W. Bush, a senior adviser said on Sunday.

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In 2001, Bush limited federal funding for stem cell research only to human embryonic stem cell lines that already existed. It was a gesture to his conservative Christian supporters who regard embryonic stem cell research as destroying potential life, because the cells must be extracted from human embryos.

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