this decision,

i like a GREAT DEAL.

it's very nice to have a president who believes the world is older than 6,000 years. who won't order scientists to lie about global warming who understands the needs and issues of women AND who wants to cure diseases and ills


Obama Aims to Shield Science From Politics
Memo to Accompany Stem Cell Action
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
When President Obama lifts restrictions on funding for human embryonic stem cell research today, he will also issue a presidential memorandum aimed at insulating scientific decisions across the federal government from political influence, officials said yesterday.

"The president believes that it's particularly important to sign this memorandum so that we can put science and technology back at the heart of pursuing a broad range of national goals," Melody C. Barnes, director of Obama's Domestic Policy Council, told reporters during a telephone briefing yesterday. .........

what a bunch of big fat stupidheads

there is NO science! the world was created (only a few thousand years ago. you know when humans rode on the backs of dinosaurs) in seven days. if you want to cure a disease or something else (NOT global warming, since there is NO SUCH THING) you PRAY FOR IT. what a bunch of dopes we are. we don't need no stinkin' science! prayer is the answer

U.S. Experts Bemoan Nation's Loss of Stature in the World of Science

By Keith B. Richburg

Washington Post Staff Writer

NEW YORK, May 28 -- Some of the nation's leading scientists, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's top science adviser, today sharply criticized the diminished role of science in the United States and the shortage of federal funding for research, even as science becomes increasingly important to combating problems such as climate change and the global food shortage.

Speaking at a science summit that opens this week's first World Science Festival, the expert panel of scientists, and audience members, agreed that the United States is losing stature because of a perceived high-level disdain for science. They cited U.S. officials and others questioning scientific evidence of climate change, the reluctance to federally fund stem cell research, and some U.S. officials casting doubt on evolution as examples that have damaged America's international standing......