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Embryonic stem cells: so that no fearmonger should ever go hungry


If you’ve ever argued with someone who doesn’t have good arguments (or can’t provide decent evidence to support their side), you know that they start going to their next best thing until they either concede, walk away or just say, “Because I said so.” 

Fearmongering has a similar path – if the things about which you want people to be scared either aren’t scaring them or have become completely impotent as things about which people are willing to get scared, you have to either find new ways to get people scared about that thing, or you need to find more things about which people should be scared.

The social conservatives are using the latter method.  The Fairness Doctrine and FOCA are not happening things – they just aren’t. So now, they are moving on to fears they see in embryonic stem cells.

U.S. House minority whip, Eric Cantor (R-VA) opposes President Obama’s support for increased access to and funding of embryonic stem cell research because, he said this weekend,

“Frankly, federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research can bring on embryo harvesting, perhaps even human cloning that occurs,” Cantor said. “We don’t want that. That shouldn’t be done. That’s wrong.”

Odd that Cantor had just said that talking about embryonic stem cell research was an unnecessary distraction from talking about the economy, and then went on to talk about it. The Family Research Council calls Obama’s policy a “deadly executive order” – I can’t find anything on what they call waterboarding.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:19 am March 9th, 2009 in Barack Obama, conservatives, Ethics, Health Care, Politics, Science 

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