A postdoc by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his research in protein structure and function get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.
...since Bush announced his restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, according to SexDrugsandDNA.com.
Well, not exactly, but close enough. I think it's actually been five years and seventeen days, but who's counting?
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Ummm... anyways....
From the site that brought us the Bill Frist Stem Cell Clock, now comes (you guessed it) the George Bush Stem Cell Clock. Michael Stebbins, who kept pressure on Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist during his year-long delay of HR 810 has now set his sights on President Bush, whose veto of the eventually passed HR 810 is the one obstacle standing between the US and a rational embryonic stem cell research funding policy. Stebbins notes just how ridiculous the current policy is:
We therefore announce that we have changed the Bill Frist Stem Cell clock on our home page to the George Bush Stem Cell Clock, which counts up from 9 August 2001, the day he put his backwards policy in place...for the record, there are over 400,000 embryos in fertility clinics in the US. To date only about 200 have been adopted and implanted in women. The President clearly thinks the public is too stupid to subtract 200 from 400,000. I am starting to believe he is right.
The clock can be viewed at SexDrugsandDNA.com, and as I'm writing this post it stands at 5 years, 19 days, 1 hour, 45 minutes, and 55 seconds. And counting. Just to put things into perspective, when Bush originally announced his restrictions on federal funding for stem cell research, I hadn't even started college yet. Now I'm starting the second year of my doctorate. Wow. I can only imagine what kind of research could have been accomplished during that time without these restrictions.
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OK OK, I fixed the clock. Pesky math and numbers. They always get in the way of good rhetoric. Maybe I can be President one day. Fun news on the Department of Homeland Security and the website we created http://www.reallyready.org will be posted to my site monday. Thanks for the link!
Posted by: Michael Stebbins | August 26, 2006 9:59 PM
Ha! I don't know about that. You'd better start dumbing down your blog and staying "on message". Then, maybe....
Posted by: Nick Anthis | August 27, 2006 5:25 PM