I can’t say I’m surprised. Increasingly conservative views are based upon religious ideology rather than facts or pragmatism, and therefore are resistant to change. A Newsweek poll shows that, despite a new technique which seemed to satisfy previous conservative objections to stem cell research, support for federal funding of stem cell research remains at 48%, with 40% opposing. This is essentially unchanged from an October 2004 poll.
George Bush’s approval has also fallen slightly from the last poll in mid-August, from 38% to 36%. The economy and his handing of Iraq appeared to be responsible for the drop. Democrats lead Republicans in the generic Congressional poll 50% to 38%.
The reason is because the article was bogus. It presented something that might be possible as something that had been accomplished. In fact, all embryos used in the “new technique” were in fact destroyed. Therefore, it failed to even “seem to satisfy” their objections, as you claim.
Every commentator I’ve read on this subject – and myself – would be truly happy if this “new technique” actually achieves what it claims to. But it hasn’t yet. Given that it’s still a fantasy, it’s rather unnecessarily nasty to claim that “conservative views are based upon religious ideology rather than facts or pragmatism” simply because we didn’t buy the fraudulent hype that you did.
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Apologies, the link seems to have broken the page. That is unintentional.
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Qwinn,
Wasn’t your fault. The blog comments seem to have a big problem wrapping long urls properly within the comment section. Ron will probably have to play around with the frame layout on the page one of these days to correct it when he has time…
It is far too early to tell if this will hold up. I’ll decide when additional peer reviewed journals show further evaluation. In contrast the conservative media appears to have quickly decided this is bogus on ideological rather than scientific grounds.
When I see an further research on this, or an editorial in NEJM, JAMA, Annals, or some other reputable journal I’ll take it serioulsy, but not when it is “refuted” by The Weekly Standard.