SICKENING INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY AND PROPAGANDA FROM THE NYTIMES ON EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS

THE FALSE AND DELIBERATELY MISLEADING HEADLINE FROM NYTIMES:

Obama Lifts Bush’s Strict Limits on Stem Cell Research

WRONG!

FACT: THERE WAS NEVER A BAN ON ANY STEM CELL RESEARCH - ADULT OR EMBRYONIC: THE LIMIT WAS ONLY A FEDERAL FUNDING LIMIT AND IT WAS ONLY ON NEW EMBRYONIC CELLS - SEVERAL EXISTING LINES WERE CONTINUOUSLY FUNDED.

THEN THE LYING LEFT-WING SCUM OF THE NYTIMES OPENED THE ARTICLE LIKE THIS:

— Pledging that his administration will “make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology,” President Obama on Monday lifted the Bush administration’s strict limits on human embryonic stem cell research.

WRONG!

THERE WERE NO LIMITS ON THE RESEARCH; ONLY FEDERAL FUNDING OF NEW LINES WAS BANNED. PRIVATE FUNDING WAS NEVER LIMITED, NOR WAS RESEARCH LIMITED.

ACCORDING TO THE NYTIMES, OBAMA SAID THIS:

The president acknowledged that studying stem cells extracted from human embryos, which are destroyed in the process, is deeply divisive.

“Many thoughtful and decent people are conflicted about, or strongly oppose, this research,” the president said. “I understand their concerns, and we must respect their point of view.”

But Mr. Obama went on to say that the majority of Americans “have come to a consensus that we should pursue this research; that the potential it offers is great, and with proper guidelines and strict oversight the perils can be avoided.”

OBAMA IS LYING OR A DUPE BECAUSE THE RESEARCH HAD ALWAYS BEEN PURSUED, JUST NOT WITH FEDERAL FUNDING.

IT IS HYPOCRITICAL FOR LEFTISTS LIKE OBAMA - WHO NORMALLY DERIDE ANY AND ALL; AID TO PRIVATE COMPANIES AS "CORPORATE WELFARE" TO THINK IT'S ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL WHEN IT COMES TO EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS.

• WHY DO THEY DO IT!?

• TO EXPLOIT THE ISSUE.

• AND THEY DO IT THE SAME WAY THEY HANDLE AGW AND THE RECESSION: BY LYING AND CRANKING UP THE FEAR.

• WITH THE AID OF THE MSM, THE LEFT MADE A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS FEEL AS IF BUSH WAS NOT LETTING SCIENTISTS DO SCIENCE WHEN IN FACT HE WAS JUST LIMITING WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOULD FUND.

• NOWHERE IN THE NYTIMES ARTICLE DO THEY POINT OUT THAT ADULT STEM CELLS ARE BETTER THAN EMBRYONIC.

• TYPICAL LYING LEFTIST SCUM.

LYING: IT'S WHAT THE LEFT DOES BEST: THEY SAID WE LOST IRAQ - AND THEN AS WE STARTED WINNING - WHEN WE WON - THEY STOPPED REPORTING ON IT.

THEY SAID GLOBAL WARMING WAS MAN-MADE, BUT GLOBAL TEMPS HAVE BEEN FLAT SINCE 2001, AND MANY CONTINENTS OR MAJOR PARTS OF CONTINENTS HAVE BEEN COOLER - LIKE THE USA! THEY TRAIPSED UP TO THE ARCTIC IN SUMMER, BUT NOW THAT IT'S WINTER AND THE ICE IS BACK THEY HAVE BETTER PLACES TO GO TO.

TYPICAL LEFTIST LYING SCUM.

*******UPDATE: THE NYTIMES JUIST POSTED AN HONEST NEWS ANALYSIS OF THE OBAMA STEM CELL FEST: Rethink Stem Cells? Science Already Has

With soaring oratory, President Obama on Monday removed a substantial practical nuisance that has long made life difficult for stem cell researchers.

He freed biomedical researchers using federal money (a vast majority) to work on more than the small number of human embryonic stem cell lines that were established before Aug. 9, 2001.

In practical terms, federally financed researchers will now find it easier to do a particular category of stem cell experiments that, though still important, has been somewhat eclipsed by new advances.

Until now, to study unapproved stem cell lines, researchers had to set up separate, privately financed labs and follow laborious accounting procedures to make sure not a cent of federal grant money was used on that research. No longer.

... However, the president’s support of embryonic stem cell research comes at a time when many advances have been made with other sorts of stem cells. The Japanese biologist Shinya Yamanaka found in 2007 that adult cells could be reprogrammed to an embryonic state with surprising ease. This technology “may eventually eclipse the embryonic stem cell lines for therapeutic as well as diagnostics applications,” Dr. Kriegstein said. For researchers, reprogramming an adult cell can be much more convenient, and there have never been any restrictions on working with adult stem cells.

... Members of Congress and advocates for fighting diseases have long spoken of human embryonic stem cell research as if it were a sure avenue to quick cures for intractable afflictions. Scientists have not publicly objected to such high-flown hopes, which have helped fuel new sources of grant money like the $3 billion initiative in California for stem cell research.In private, however, many researchers have projected much more modest goals for embryonic stem cells.

OBAMA IS EITHER A DOPE WHO DOESN'T GET IT, OR HE'S TRYING TO DUPE THE PUBLIC.

YOUR CALL.