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NARN, The Biology 101 Edition!

posted at 1:00 pm on March 14, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Ed, I’m pleased that you have What’s So Great About Christianity? on your bookshelf. For those who want a free taste of the book’s substance before they commit to buying it, here is an article that D’Souza wrote for Imprimis:
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=11

jgapinoy on March 14, 2009 at 9:21 AM

Unfertilized embryos. Real Science paid for and brought to you by “Obama for President” campaign.

From unfertilized eggs, merely the next extension for ignorant AND abusive minds to latch and project into unfertilized embryos.

“What you see is what you get,” is based on SIGHT. Ignorance breeds blind stupidity.

maverick muse on March 14, 2009 at 11:50 AM

The ignorant public embrace twisted science in the flat world.

Today’s headline of a judge requiring a home schooled advanced placed child attend a public school in order to LEARN twisted science deserves mention. Morons need not latch onto Darwin or to climatology. Stick with Obama’s own miraculous claim to scientific fame: the unfertilized embryo.

Obama will play god and create the flat world in 7 days.

maverick muse on March 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM

Wow. I missed those Clintonian statements about fertilized embryos. Unreal.

Buy Danish on March 14, 2009 at 12:04 PM

CNS: Obama signed a law that explicitly bans federal funding of any “research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.”

KNOWINGLY depends on the definition of to know.

maverick muse on March 14, 2009 at 12:53 PM

At Ace’s

In January of 1999, Harriet Rabb, the top lawyer at the Department of Health and Human Services, released a legal opinion that would set the course for Clinton Administration policy. Federal funds, obviously, could not be used to derive stem cell lines (because derivation involves embryo destruction). However, she concluded that because human embryonic stem cells “are not a human embryo within the statutory definition,” the Dickey-Wicker Amendment does not apply to them. The NIH was therefore free to give federal funding to experiments involving the cells themselves (what Republican Senator Sam Brownback, of Kansas, called a bit of “legal sophistry.”)

The NIH, with input from the National Bioethics Advisory Commission and others, went on to develop guidelines outlining the types of human embryonic stem cell research that would be eligible for federal funding. These Clinton Administration guidelines, published in August of 2000, forbid the use of federal funds to destroy human embryos to derive stem cells (because of the Dickey-Wicker Amendment), but permitted research with stem cells that other, privately funded scientists had already derived from spare embryos slated for destruction at fertility clinics.

Posted by: exception at March 14, 2009 11:09 AM (o5wq5)

maverick muse on March 14, 2009 at 12:58 PM

“Embolding our enemies and ticking off our allies”
Well put Ed.

RobCon on March 14, 2009 at 3:57 PM

In my best Bill Clinton voice:

Whether or not the embryos are fertilized depends on what the definition of “is” is.

I did not fertilize any embryos with that woman.

backwoods conservative on March 14, 2009 at 7:26 PM

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