Open Science Thread
January 12, 2008 by
Filed under Bush Powers, Capitol Hill, Clueless, Deserved, Double Standards, Idiot Ideas, Legal Ramblings, Money, Uncategorized
Did the NIH just discover a bizarre hurdle limiting embryonic stem cell research even if the embryo isn’t harmed?
The Questionable Authority — They can’t get funding for the embryos unless they carry out a test that would definitively prove that the embryos were not harmed, and they cannot ethically conduct the test that would show that the embryos were not harmed because they have not yet shown … Read on …
That’s some catch that Catch-22. Yeap! It’s the best there is!
- NASA’s MESSENGER probe will make a very close approach to the planet Mercury next Monday. The small world is aptly named: it will take several flybys over the next few years before the spacecraft can catch up to speedy Mercury and enter orbit around it.
- Bad Astronomy with the tale of the strange looking proto-planetary disk just 100 light years away called The Moth.
- CBS New reports that abstinence only education is such a flop — shocking I know — that some states are foregoing Federal dollars to also teach sex-ed that actually saves lives and prevents unplanned pregnancies.
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