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stem cells
Jul. 23rd, 2007 05:54 pmChris Dodd just said (in the CNN/YouTube debate) that in a Chris Dodd administration we'd be doing stem cell research, and the crowd cheered enthusiastically, and I just thought, how DUMB. How dumb, what a sick place we've come to, that we know about stem cell research, that we care about it, that it is a subject for political debate, somehow a partisan issue.
In a sane country, this would just be something that medical scientists are working on, like they're working on a host of other approaches to cure disease that almost nobody knows much about, we just figure they're working on it, and sometimes when they've got something promising we hear the good news. Instead we live in a place where the radical right is always looking for ways to divide us from each other, ways to distract us from doing the work that really needs to be done--you know, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, living with peace and justice on this planet we've been given.
And so they decided to make a fuss about stem cell research, and now we all know about it and it's another one of the ways in which, instead of spending our energy trying to make our country better, we're just struggling to prevent it from getting stupidly worse.
In a sane country, this would just be something that medical scientists are working on, like they're working on a host of other approaches to cure disease that almost nobody knows much about, we just figure they're working on it, and sometimes when they've got something promising we hear the good news. Instead we live in a place where the radical right is always looking for ways to divide us from each other, ways to distract us from doing the work that really needs to be done--you know, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, living with peace and justice on this planet we've been given.
And so they decided to make a fuss about stem cell research, and now we all know about it and it's another one of the ways in which, instead of spending our energy trying to make our country better, we're just struggling to prevent it from getting stupidly worse.
