In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
The dangers of Theocracy (a continuing feature, I guess) and a reason for all sides to dislike Bush
Pentagon Bankrolls Swedish Stem Cell Study
Remember when Bush allowed thousands of thousands of Americans to wait multiple years more for a cure to their diseases just so he looked good to his religious conservative base? You might not remember that because it was pre-9/11, but in those days George had five priorities for his presidency:Notice protecting the nation for terrorism wasn't in the top five? (or anywhere).
- Make his defense contractor buddy's rich by building an expensive missile that shoots down missiles... of course it doesn't actually work, but that's beside the point.
- Make his oil buddy's rich.
- Find a way to get into a war with Irag, to make both his defense contractor and oil buddies rich.
- Billions of Tax cuts for the rich (and $300 for the rest of us).
- Stop important stem cell research.
Anyway, he pretty much halted stem cell research save for a few firms (donors all... believe it or not).
So now we get this:
March 17 — STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Pentagon has granted $240,000 to a Swedish team for embryonic stem-cell research linked to Parkinson's disease, the researchers said on Wednesday, despite U.S. government limits on stem-cell research.
In a statement, Lund University in southern Sweden said the U.S. Department of Defense was supporting the Swedish Parkinson's study because the findings could be used to treat similar neurological illnesses caused by battlefield toxins.
The Swedish research, using human embryonic stem cells, will focus on ways to prompt the cells to develop into the type of nerve cells deficient in the brains of patients with Parkinson's. The disease causes tremors, muscle rigidity and slow movement in its sufferers and is currently incurable.
"The goal is to develop a line of human embryonic stem cells which can be transplanted to test animals with a disease resembling Parkinson's," said Patrik Brundin, the research team leader.
Stem cells are a type of master cell. Embryonic stem cells, or blastocysts, can be directed to develop into any type of cell or tissue when grown correctly.
President Bush has forbidden the use of federal funds to manipulate or create human embryos for research and limited scientific research to a few existing batches of cells taken from fertility clinic leftovers.
So, if you want to see Parkinson's are a host of other disease erraticated, then you should get pretty darn annoyed that the main avenue for a cure basically isn't being studied in the US because of Bush.
or
If you are part of Bush's religious base you should be annoyed that Bush is basically going back on what he is saying and is having federal funding go to stem cell research and he thought you were just too dumb to notice.
or
If you couldn't care less, you should be annoyed that your tax dollars are going to a foreign land to help foreigners developed medicines that could generate money for said foreign scientists. Bush is pushing entire future industries offshore... not just jobs this time.
So, no matter what, you should be annoyed at Bush. Another success story for the Bush Administration.
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