Comments on: Anti-Science From Both Left and Right http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/antiscience_fro.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:19:20 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: leftelitist http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/antiscience_fro.html/comment-page-1#comment-5243 leftelitist Fri, 18 May 2007 19:19:04 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/antiscience_fro.html #comment-5243 <p>Did you actually read the case? The concern was with the effects on the environment, animals, and genetic pollution. All the plaintiffs wanted was for the government to look at the possible effects and try to put in safeguards to prevent contamination. </p> Did you actually read the case? The concern was with the effects on the environment, animals, and genetic pollution. All the plaintiffs wanted was for the government to look at the possible effects and try to put in safeguards to prevent contamination.

]]> By: tsiroth http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/antiscience_fro.html/comment-page-1#comment-5242 tsiroth Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:51:45 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/antiscience_fro.html #comment-5242 <p>Not to mention that, for the most part, those on the right who oppose embryonic stem cell research do so because they honestly believe that babies are being killed. Whereas those on the left who oppose GM crops do so for the most part because they honestly believe...genetic modification is icky?</p> <p>Karen: While you are right that it is not accurate to call it a true ban, it is apparently not so straightforward as it might seem. </p> <p>For instance, the biology department at a university may have a very nice research lab facility paid for in part by the proceeds of federal research grant money. I am told that this entire lab facility can now not be used for any purpose for which federal tax money cannot be used. </p> <p>In other words, not just that federal tax dollars cannot be spent directly on such research, but that facilities and equipment bought in the past, even if only partly with federal tax dollars, can then never be used for embryonic stem cell research.</p> Not to mention that, for the most part, those on the right who oppose embryonic stem cell research do so because they honestly believe that babies are being killed. Whereas those on the left who oppose GM crops do so for the most part because they honestly believe…genetic modification is icky?

Karen: While you are right that it is not accurate to call it a true ban, it is apparently not so straightforward as it might seem.

For instance, the biology department at a university may have a very nice research lab facility paid for in part by the proceeds of federal research grant money. I am told that this entire lab facility can now not be used for any purpose for which federal tax money cannot be used.

In other words, not just that federal tax dollars cannot be spent directly on such research, but that facilities and equipment bought in the past, even if only partly with federal tax dollars, can then never be used for embryonic stem cell research.

]]> By: Karen of Scottsdale http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/antiscience_fro.html/comment-page-1#comment-5241 Karen of Scottsdale Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:32:16 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/antiscience_fro.html #comment-5241 <p>There are no bans on stem cell research. Us "Christian right extremists" are asking that our tax dollars not be used, but for some reason the media and the left (one and the same) keep perpetrating the lie about a so-called ban on stem cell research.</p> There are no bans on stem cell research. Us “Christian right extremists” are asking that our tax dollars not be used, but for some reason the media and the left (one and the same) keep perpetrating the lie about a so-called ban on stem cell research.

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