Politics: Doc vs Doc
Howard Dean vs. Bill Frist on stem cells on Late Edition.
Frist asserts over and over again that there isn't a ban on stem cell research. You're right, numb nuts. There's an EFFECTIVE ban on stem cell research, because you can't do the research that needs to be done w/ just a few cell lines. You wouldn't tell Mozart to compose a symphony only using C, D, F#, and Bb.
God, I wish I had a transcript of this. An ethical framework? Well hell, Stalin had an ethical framework. But those sure weren't my ethics. A balanced policy? Balanced between what? Sanity and the religious right?
Frist trained in public policy at Princeton, and in medicine at HMS. He's smarter than that.
Now, I'd also like to post Frist's spiel on flu vaccines, which I agree with wholly. Of course, the way he tries to use vaccines as a microcosm for all of health care is absurdist, simplistic, and again, he's smarter than that.
How's that for fair and balanced? Frist is an idiot and a genius all in one post! Thanks for visiting!
2 comments:
is there a ban on privately funded stem cell research too? i don't think there is, but i'm not sure. by the way kerry and edwards are portraying it, i can't imagine why private investors wouldn't be throwing all their money into it. :)
personally i don't believe in the intrinsic sanctity of life, so this entire exchange between the religious right and the religious left is highly entertaining.
mikey
you know as well as i do that private companies would be nuts to dump money into this stuff at the level its at now, w/o any immediate hope of profits any time soon. Like always, the government will have to pick up the tab, do most of the dirty work, and let the pharm companies bring it on home :)
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