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Last week, two independent researchers published studies in which they were able to successfully develop stem cells from non-embryonic human tissue, silencing the moral qualms many Americans have with the use of embryos for the same purpose. President George W. Bush hopped right on to the scene with a self-congratulatory press release. He was quick to remind everyone that his administration is the first to fund such research and that he is very pleased with the results...
...knowledge that Bush is “very pleased” to be “the first president to make federal funds available for human embryonic stem cell research” wasn’t quite enough to make everybody grateful this Thanksgiving. One of the scientists involved in the advance, James Thompson, pointed out that Bush’s “ethical” approach (i.e. repeatedly vetoing bills that would loosen regulations on the research) is what set stem cell research back about four years. Bush is taking credit for funding a particular area of science...
...can’t help but suspect, however, that the pool of contenders for the title is relatively small. I’m sure Taft or Lincoln would have enjoyed that kind of street cred and mad props, but when it came to the scientific induction of pluripotent stem cells from adult human fibroblasts, I guess they just couldn’t tear themselves away from getting stuck in bathtubs and freeing slaves (respectively) to log enough hours in the lab or scrape together the bread for clonogenic assays. You snooze, you lose...
These semantic questions might do a lot less to solve the stem cell problem than those researchers in Wisconsin and Japan did last week, but they do tell us a little about the mind of the man in charge. In the end, perhaps Bush’s attitude can lend us some perspective about what we ought to value in America. Instead of striving for scientific progress, revolutionary strides in improving health or even moral integrity, let’s just sit back and count our world records...
...Moet Hennessy [sic],” Lin immediately invalidates her entire article. Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton is a house grounded and supported by almost exclusively European brands...all of Lin’s examples of how Project East has perpetuated the grave social and environmental problems in East Asia stem from this conglomerate. Here a basic understanding of the industry is essential; Lin obviously didn’t realize that there is a difference between the effects of large, Western brands in East Asia versus the effect of the brands that Project East promoted, which were small, Asian brands...