Science Returns to Science: Obama Approves Stem-Cell Research

Today,В in a coincidence interesting enoughВ to make me suspectВ someone in theВ White House reads Planet Waves,В President Obama has signed an executive order overturning the Bush Administration’s policy on stem-cell research. The president signsВ the order whileВ the Full MoonВ overhead is conjunct Saturn inВ the sign of VirgoВ and Uranus conjuncts the Sun in Pisces. Pluto in Capricorn, the sign of big government witnesses the signing.

If ever there was a day for government to right the wrongs committed against the sciences governing human health and healing of life on the planet, this is it. By signing this bill, the President has spared the country from another year of the manipulation of science for political gain — also known as the politicization of science which isВ second only to the global war on terrorВ as the most damaging in repercussions to life on the planet as we know it.В  Today, in signing the executive order on stem-cell research, the Obama Administration will also issue a statement insulating science from political influence.

From pharmaceuticals to climate change, science policies over the last eight years under the Bush Administration was at times so unbelievable we had to suppress our incredulity to cope. It was quite literally a war waged on knowledge. Here are some of the highlights:

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