Obama's speech and actions were heartening to many in the scientific community, who believed that under President Bush, science was often ignored or politicized, in everything from climate change research to stem cells.
"It was incredibly moving and very exciting, and I think it's going to energize the scientific community," said Dr. George Q. Daley, a stem cell biologist at Children's Hospital in Boston who attended the signing. "To have the president stand up and assert that science should be free of ideology and politics . . . how can you not applaud that?"
I'm going to stick with the scientific consensus on this one, as any rational person should do. Your claims, which contradict the opinions of the experts in the field, required strong evidence, which you could not provide. Neither you or I are experts, so it's to them that we must differ, not your anecdotes and analogies.
I was not bull-headed, I was critical, but eager to learn. You just couldn't live up to your own hype.
A parting quote
Obama's speech and actions were heartening to many in the scientific community, who believed that under President Bush, science was often ignored or politicized, in everything from climate change research to stem cells.
"It was incredibly moving and very exciting, and I think it's going to energize the scientific community," said Dr. George Q. Daley, a stem cell biologist at Children's Hospital in Boston who attended the signing. "To have the president stand up and assert that science should be free of ideology and politics . . . how can you not applaud that?"
I'm going to stick with the scientific consensus on this one, as any rational person should do. Your claims, which contradict the opinions of the experts in the field, required strong evidence, which you could not provide. Neither you or I are experts, so it's to them that we must differ, not your anecdotes and analogies.
I was not bull-headed, I was critical, but eager to learn. You just couldn't live up to your own hype.