Mar 10 2009Obama Reverses Stem Cell Research Policy
Obama, in a pow-pow-power move, signed an executive order (I need a pad of those) yesterday that has " cleared the way for a significant increase in federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research". Now I don't even know what that means, but I do want to clone my dog. And also, grow a tail.
"Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident," Obama declared.
Obama signed the executive order on the divisive stem cell issue and a memo addressing what he called scientific integrity before an East Room audience packed with scientists. He laced his remarks with several jabs at the way science was handled by former President George W. Bush."Promoting science isn't just about providing resources, it is also about protecting free and open inquiry," Obama said. "It is about letting scientists like those here today do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when it's inconvenient especially when it's inconvenient. It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology."
Well rooty tooty, fresh and fruity! Maybe scientists will finally be able to unlock the secret of my seductive pheromones. Here -- lick my armpit. You taste that? It's called gin, and I sweat it. You ever made love to a man that smells like a pine tree? It's coniferous.
Obama reverses Bush-era stem cell policy [msnbc]
Thanks to Ryan, who is a huge proponent of both twig and branch cell research.
Reader Comments
1. WHODEY - March 10, 2009 12:35 PM
FIRST !!!!
2. Jerry - March 10, 2009 12:38 PM
Yes! My first, first! in yo face
3. Kup - March 10, 2009 12:38 PM
second!!! ...ahh. to be second.....amost as good as first.
now post it MFer!!!
4. Kup - March 10, 2009 12:40 PM
ever notice how Osama.......errrrrr......Obama seems to speak on, and travel to speak on., everything BUT the economy??
5. Mr. Man - March 10, 2009 12:46 PM
@ 2-4
FAIL
economy recycles every 49- 50 years or so
clone the vampires
FTW
2012
6. tom - March 10, 2009 12:53 PM
this is meant to be a bigger recession then 1929 thou :P
7. naas - March 10, 2009 12:53 PM
@1 - @3 Supreme fail, irreversible firstardation.
...nobody's listening
8. crimson skies - March 10, 2009 12:54 PM
yes, and possibly a worldwide currency at the end of it
9. LSDiesel - March 10, 2009 12:57 PM
@4, It's because he's trying to distract us by giving us 'hope' and 'change' in all the places that don't matter.
F.U.C.K. you Obama.
10. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 10, 2009 12:58 PM
6- Moron. Start reading and stop regurgitating the scare tactics.
Why the F*CK is this political crap here? Or are you attempting to qualify this as "awesome"? Psh.
*physically sitting on hands and biting tongue to pre-empt politcal rant*
11. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 10, 2009 1:05 PM
It's about time. I need a new set of lungs and a new heart. Hurry up science. I don't have all decade.
12. Count Orlock - March 10, 2009 1:07 PM
I don't come to this website to read political debates...I come here to read about worthless stupid products that the Japanese create, to read about the inevitable destruction of man kind at the hands of our robot brethren, to read about some weird bra someone created, or a watch that you can't possibly tell time off of.
Please Mr. Geekologie writer, next time you receive or find an article such as this..pass it by and post some breasts.
13. naas - March 10, 2009 1:13 PM
@12 I second that, best closing suggestion I've heard all week.
14. softlicious - March 10, 2009 1:14 PM
Oops you used a bad word, I tried to change it but it still didn't work, anyway I was saying I don't support O S A M A I mean the new pres. He shouldn't waste other people's money.
15. the dude - March 10, 2009 1:15 PM
Actually scientists have been able to research stem cells since it was discovered, and they have been doing so for years.
Obama just allowed the goverment to give funding to companies to help them research.
16. m0nkey - March 10, 2009 1:17 PM
yay for science
17. Ekn - March 10, 2009 1:18 PM
Agree with #12.
Plus this is fake. photoshop, but an older copy. The shadows are all wrong. They just spliced parts of what nixon did with pictures of some sperm/egg dance party. Hell... that might be a mspaint job.
18. naas - March 10, 2009 1:21 PM
I don't think anybody misses Spam Artist :)
"GW, I think 'it' worked"
19. PunsKillPeople - March 10, 2009 1:27 PM
Yessssss!
20. Timbo - March 10, 2009 1:32 PM
Obama is an idiot.. A complete idiot
21. Superevil - March 10, 2009 1:34 PM
Kup, LSDiesel, softlicious, apparently didn't get the memo that we're not calling Obama Osama anymore. Now we're calling him a libtardsocialistcommunistradicalmarxistfascist. Get with the times morons.
22. Kup and Timbo are Fox News Watchers - March 10, 2009 1:40 PM
Are you saying that the ability to cure certain diseases is unnecessary? This is the future of medicine.
Timbo how long did it take you figure out Dubya was not too bright.? Seven years. Idiot
Kup are you serious? Osama... That was the best you could do. DUMB@SS
23. Elmo - March 10, 2009 1:44 PM
yaaay Obama clones! how fun...
24. Watch - March 10, 2009 1:45 PM
Finally, now they can actually start spinal treatments for para and quadrapalegics to get them walking again!
25. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 10, 2009 1:50 PM
#24
I think that is the first time I've seen you post something that didn't make me want to set you on fire. Good job!
26. naas - March 10, 2009 1:51 PM
ɐɯɐqo
27. Milkman - March 10, 2009 2:06 PM
He has some cajones for going against the religious right.
28. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 10, 2009 2:11 PM
27 - Right, because in this post-Bush-era political climate, it MUST take balls to go against the RR. *eye roll*
29. che-che - March 10, 2009 2:30 PM
@27-isnt science a religion.
KEEP PRINTING THAT MONEY! ITS BOUND TO DO SOMETHING GOOD!
30. Timbo - March 10, 2009 2:45 PM
@22 you're an idiot too
" Hey guys! I just got some babies to
Murder!! Woohoo let's gooooo!!!"
Moron
31. Right Fury - March 10, 2009 3:08 PM
Hey, maybe if you guys keep yelling "change" at the top of your lungs, like you did during the election, there will be some.
maybe not.
32. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 10, 2009 3:18 PM
@The Right Wing Agenda
Get the sand out of your collective vaginas. I'd gladly dissect a fetus that was on its way to the medical incinerator so I can walk again. At least that fetus got more out of its existence than becoming a puff of smoke.
33. Beastman AIDS - March 10, 2009 3:41 PM
#30
Are you aware that stem cells are sourced from many places other than aborted fetuses?
There are Embryonic Stem Cells, Umbilical Cord Stem Cells, Placenta Derived Stem Cells and Adult Stem Cells.
34. Kitty - March 10, 2009 4:02 PM
@30
Can you please link me to your dead fetus recycling facility? What do you do with em anyway?
35. Emmortality - March 10, 2009 4:04 PM
"Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident," Obama declared.
Neither does life.
36. Kitty - March 10, 2009 4:08 PM
@35
Because every pregnancy had to have been done on purpose, right!
37. Emmortality - March 10, 2009 4:09 PM
#33
The ban that was lifted had never banned obtaining stem cells from the sources you mentioned. It banned obtaining them from inseminated eggs and fetuses.
38. Emmortality - March 10, 2009 4:12 PM
#36
Penicillin wasn't planned, I would say it is now a medical miracle. Doesn't mean it was an accident. All depends on what you think an accident is....
39. Megaman50100 - March 10, 2009 4:14 PM
Lol @ calling a baby "Mommy's little accident"
40. Kitty - March 10, 2009 4:16 PM
I think not planning to have a baby when you have sex and then getting pregnant is pretty accidental.
41. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 10, 2009 4:40 PM
37- Actually, the ban was on federal FUNDING of that procedure; you get 1/3 credit for trying though.
40- You mean participating in an act DESIGNED to create a baby and getting preggers, is an accident? Perhaps in your head, but not in the eyes of nature.
That said; bring on the cure to life threatening diseases through the death of unborn children - seems like we're robbing Peter to pay Paul. But as long as we're using death as birth conrol, we may as well try to do something helpful with it.
~Pro Choice with a Bit of Vomit in Her Mouth.
42. Milkman - March 10, 2009 5:04 PM
Wow only 41 comments for a religiously, scientifically, and politically motivated post. You're all slackers and should be ashamed.
PS. Everyone knows dead babies are best with Sweet BABY Ray's.
43. Kitty - March 10, 2009 5:16 PM
@41
You mean having sex and NOT wanting to procreate is not something that we typically do? OooooOoooOohhh....
44. r@nd0m_mVrd3r_v!ct3m_#385 - March 10, 2009 5:17 PM
"...and grow a tail." Are you into the furry fandom? Just wondering, and if your wondering about me, the answer is hells yeah, and proud. Oh, and "kup" celebrating second, I must tell you second place is a fancy name for losing. lolz futurama reference.
45. Jeff W. - March 10, 2009 6:46 PM
Hooray! It's so nice that science is back in the White House. It's refreshing that we have a president who doesn't base policy on a 2000 year old fairy tale involving magic and superstition. Perhaps we're finally moving away from Bronze Age thinking and toward scientific enlightenment.
46. aSsss - March 10, 2009 7:32 PM
@32, 45 - wholeheartedly Agree
to anyone who doesn't approve.. get off your high horses. science is the first place you turn to in the time of medical need. let it do it's thing.
47. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 10, 2009 8:10 PM
@45: My thoughts exactly. I just breathed a sigh of relief that we actually have someone with an open mind in a position of power, one who makes logical decisions, not ones based on antiquated superstitions.
Good job America, time to move in the right direction (as in correct, not Right-winged). I salute you Mr. Obama, literally and figuratively.
And for those of you talking about the economy: It's a fcuking recession, get over it. Only those who buy and sell stocks will be able to right this, and it'll happen in due time.
48. Daisy - March 10, 2009 9:03 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in NEver Back Down where Max worked nights in a morgue, and turned the morgue into a whorehouse for his own fun and profit.
49. Something 4you - March 10, 2009 10:24 PM
People here bitching about using the unborn for scientific research while there are babies starving to death all over the world and you spend your time on Geekologie. Its easy to talk the talk right?...........
50. Beastman AIDS - March 10, 2009 11:41 PM
#49 I'm more worried about those starving babies precious stem cells going to waste than of providing them with food.
51. Ryan - March 11, 2009 12:01 AM
One - My tip rules.
Two - This isn't political, it's scientific. The majority of things you read on here have some kind of basis in science if you have yet to notice. Whether it be of anthropological significance, like the recent "vampire" skull, or just some crazy mutation like the octo-girl (posted a while back) which is choc-full of biological significance, it still pertains to science.
The only reason you see this as political is due to the controversy that has enveloped it, and will continue to do so until you realize how monumental this truly is. Also, to the person who told Obama to get effed - is this you: http://www.geekologie.com/2009/03/why_do_terminators_timetravel.php ?
Bam! Now, for all of the ladies here on Geekologie - here's me: http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1320/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1320R-193997.jpg . What I lack in good looks, charm, stamina, sexual prowess, pigment in my hair, etc., I make up for in... Well, I once had a tip on Geekologie. Not all at once, now!
52. unlock iphone 3g - March 11, 2009 5:42 AM
Science stands in the first place in the time of medical need. Waiting for more developments
53. Mensa VS Densa - March 11, 2009 6:46 AM
Oh god, a quick scan of the first 40 comments on this thread made me want to bash my head against a wall. It's on Geekologie because it's related to SCIENCE you idiots. Even if you do read this blog just to see the "girls dressed as anime characters" articles, why would you admit that? Nay, BOAST about being in the bottom IQ percentile of the Geekologie readership?
And yet here you all are, spouting misguided platitudes and you're all absolutely convinced that it should be a political issue because it's been made into one by your born-again egomaniacal ex-prez and his nasty little friends. And then you're whining about your current prez when all he's done is make life easier for a bunch of researchers. Why are you even reading this blog if you're against scientific progress? Ah yeah right - the anime chicks. Screw you guys.
54. Mensa VS Densa - March 11, 2009 6:50 AM
Seriously.
SCREW
YOU
GUYS
55. softlicious - March 11, 2009 7:34 AM
@53 - I'm not against science, but I don't like murder. I also don't like the government to fund projects, I believe in the market economy. Barack Osama or libtardsocialistcommunistradicalmarxistfascist, as he nowdays uses to call himself (@21 - thanks for sharing), anyway libtardsocialistcommunistradicalmarxistfascist is a fücking libtardsocialistcommunistradicalmarxistfascist who is spreading the wealth around and I don't like that. If you know how to cure people who have cancer 100% of the time, then you should get some venture capital behind your project, not federal money. The government isn't supposed to decide which project is viable and deserves money, that's what they did in the sovjets and it's plain wrong. I think all democrats should go live in Cuba or perhaps Sweden, go to Sweden u stupid democrat!
56. E of R - March 11, 2009 7:46 AM
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57. Commonsense - March 11, 2009 10:00 AM
@29 No science isn't a religion. One runs on facts, the other blind, willful ignorance
@30 You're the moron. The potential for human life isn't human life. How many sperm go unused every hour you masturbate? You should be tried for genocide, you mass murderer.
@35 Yes it does.
@ the rest of you. If you were dying of a horrible disease I bet none of you would turn down any cure developed from stem cells, hypocrites.
58. thedude - March 11, 2009 12:49 PM
LIBERALS and
CONSERVATIVES LISTEN
YOU ALL HAVE YOUR FACTS WRONG
There has never ever been a ban on researching stem cells or using embryos to use as testing stem cells.
Bush didn't ban research on stem cells.
Obama didn't lift a ban on research.
Obama just allowed the government to give grants to companies that are researching stem cells.
There are hundreds of companies that have been researching stem cells since it was possible. They would just get private funding and not use government money.
59. Bobby James McGruder - March 11, 2009 1:14 PM
No wonder the Republicans lost. Judging from these comments, they're stupid.
60. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 11, 2009 2:43 PM
58- See comment #41. Thank you, have a great day!
61. thedude - March 11, 2009 2:51 PM
60- See comment #15. Thank you, have a great day!
62. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 11, 2009 4:41 PM
61 - You win this time...
63. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 11, 2009 5:37 PM
@55: Your way failed miserably, it's our turn now...watch and see how it's done correctly.
64. solomani - March 14, 2009 5:36 AM
It kind of surprised me seeing a political statement on Geekologies. I cant recall when (if) that happened the last time. As Count Orlock said, I don't come for political comments I come to read about the gamer/tech geek sub-culture. I have plenty of other websites to stress about this kind of stuff.
But since you opened the Pandora's box - embryonic stem cell research is worthless and ideologically driven. The reason government wants to put money in it is because the private sector wont - Adult stem cells have given us 70 breakthroughs. Embryonic stem cells? ZERO. 70 to 0. Dont waste your money.
Never mind the fact that you are killing people to perform this research. On the moral rung of evil the current US government would be looking UP at the NAZIS. You can't never create life from death.
65. turdaliciously_tittylating - June 26, 2009 1:22 PM
@everyone- mass FAIL.
The truth is nobody really cares what you think. So shut it.
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