Comments on: Robert Bidinotto Gives Rush the Bum's Rush https://barelyablog.com/robert-bidinotto-gives-rush-the-bum%e2%80%99s-rush-2/ by ilana mercer Sun, 11 May 2025 16:48:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Danforth https://barelyablog.com/robert-bidinotto-gives-rush-the-bum%e2%80%99s-rush-2/comment-page-1/#comment-13780 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:02:48 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=324#comment-13780 The press doesn’t even pick up the basic distinction here. They parrot, “ban on stem cell research”. It’s presented as if it were an up or down question on whether the research will be allowed. Nobody in the popular press seems to question the smuggled assumption that, “unless State Science researches it, the research won’t get done”.

The reality is that the government can’t ban the research. Given the track record of State Science on cancer research, AIDS research, Global Warming research, alternative energy research, and just about everything else they fund while dictating in advance what the findings will be, it seems that the entry of State Science into stem cell research might delay any valuable outcome. In fact, there is every danger that it might result in the premature release of harmful therapies after blatantly flawed research.

We might just be better off if the state stayed out of it.

Regarding the Limbaugh meltdown, from the first he has shown himself to be a pragmatist — no core principles to guide him. A huge miscalculation like this was inevitable. If there are any principled Republicans out there, he does them no favors.

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