The debate is over - science will put $ over truth

Consider that the Dear Leader said, “[it’s] about letting scientists ... do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion. ... It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda - and that we would make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology” when lifting the GOVERNMENT ban on embryonic stem cell research. Hmmm, maybe the best way to keep the politics out of science is to keep politicians and government money out of science.

But juxtapose the Dear leader’s position on stem cell research with AlGore’s position on global warming (19 degrees in Ft. Wayne, IN last night by the way). AlGore steadfastly refuses to debate scientist who dare disagree with him. Now think about that. A washed up political hack of no particular talent is deemed a more credible source on the subject of global warming than a MIT scientist.

And how does the pompous windbag AlGore win the global warming debate? He simply declares that “the debate is over.” I’m going to try that strategy with the Mrs. about the new .50 cal Beowulf rifle - cost $4,400 - I’ve had my eye on. “Look honey the debate is over. We’re getting the rifle.” The wife thinks about it for a second and rplies, "Oh the debate is over? I didn't know that. Let me go get the check book." Something tells me that's not how the real conversation is going to go.

So forget about the slippery slope of the government engineering a clone army of Sgt. Rock type soldiers. Never mind some Montgomery Burns type using the government’s research to bring off-spring into the world for the sole purpose of having a reservoir of matching spare body parts handy. Let’s just ask ourselves why the government can ignore science in the case of global warming but demand useless government funded research in the case of stem cell research?

It’s simple – ideology. Stem cell research is a cheapening of human life. How far behind can infanticide for undesirable kids and euthanasia for the sick be? Global warming is the government’s trump card to control more of lives – what we drive, eat, wear, how warm and cool we keep our homes nearly everything.

I predict that the government’s involvement in this will have the exact opposite of its intended effect. Instead of science seeking truth, science research will be seeking results that comport with funding. Can you imagine a scientist coming out with research that a botox injection into a woman’s head will reduce the woman’s IQ 10 points for every injection while Nanny Pelosi is Speaker. What are the chances that there will be ground breaking research that chubby lisping homosexuals are on average are 99.9% less likely to admit their own culpability in a housing meltdown scandal than the rest of us while Barney need a male prostitute? Frank is around?

Science will no longer be chasing the truth. It will be chasing government dollars.