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WaPo Sees No Social Liberals: Obama Aims 'To Shield Science From Politics' on Embryo Killing
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... The Washington Post covered President Obama’s decision to allow federal subsidies for embryo-destroying stem cell research with the gloss of Science triumphing over politics. The headline on page A-2 was "Obama Aims to Shield Science From Politics: Memo to Accompany Stem Cell Action." Or does Obama aim to shield science from ethics, or shield science from debate? The Post certainly did, quoting no opponent of Obama's "science" agenda or embryo-destroying research. In paragraph eight, reporter Rob Stein made a quick reference to opposition: ...

Re: "Obama Aims to Shield Science from Politics"
The Corner on National Review Online — Monday, March 09, 2009 [image] Re: “Obama Aims to Shield Science from Politics” [Jason Steorts] Most striking to me about the Washington Post s story , which Ramesh mentions below, are these two sentences. 1) The decision by President George W. Bush to restrict funding for stem cell research has been seen by critics as part of a pattern of allowing political ideology to influence scientific decisions across an array of issues . . . 2) [T]he research is highly controversial because the cells are obtained by destroying embryos, which some consider to be immoral. Well, if one ...

President Obama Removes Politics from Science by Adding More Politics to Science
The Sundries Shack — Here’s an interesting headline from today’s Washington Post . Obama Aims to Shield Science From Politics I’d say his aim is off a bit. The Post is being terribly deceptive in reporting what the White House says the President will do as opposed to what his order will really do. If the President really wanted to pull politics out of science, he’d do that. He could end all public funding for scientific endeavors that would do all the shielding he could ever want. If he shut down NASA, the CDC, the FDA, AMRIID, NIST and every other government body that funds or directly ...

Pulling Heartstrings and Straining Credibility: The Media Promote Embryonic Stem Cell Research
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... A March 9 Washington Post headline screamed, "Obama Aims to Shield Science From Politics." Staff writer Rob Stein wrote in the article: ...