A rather balanced look at what was behind the Bush Administration’s stance on stem cell research.
In the wake of Obama’s decision to lift Bush’s funding ban, many scientists are celebrating the freedom of science from ideology. Their relief is understandable, but the rhetoric is disturbing.
The Bush administration didn’t skew stem cell research like it did environmental science: It simply said it wasn’t right. Bush’s limitations on embryonic research were ethical and legitimate — but not, as many observers have noted, anti-science.