Is President Obama playing politics with Science?

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When President Obama rescinded President Bush's executive order on Government funding of embryonic stem cell research he also received another executive order that provided funding for pluripotent stem cell research. This is where they take adult stem cells and make them act like embryonic stem cells with out the dangers of embryonic stem cells. In the only recorded human use of embryonic stem cell therapy the boy developed benign brain and spine tumors. these tumors were very similar to the malignant tumors that lab animals developed and die from. The other interesting fact is it is in the area of adult stem cell research and in pluripotent stem cell research where the gains have been made. Pluripotent stem cell research has already had many successful therapy's to treat diseases and conditions. If you view this in the same light as some of his other actions a pattern develops that he is paying back those who helped get him elected no matter what the cost. He stated that this would free scientist when in fact it removes funding from the successful areas and gives it to the area that has yet to produce any results. President Bush's executive order did not ban embryonic stem cell research, as many in the media would have us believe, but stopped government funding for the development of new embryonic stem cell strands. The government could fund research using one of the 72 strands in use. At the time only a few strands were being used and you could use all the private money you wanted for research. There was very little private money because despite the years of research results were coming from the research using adult stem cells. Michael Reagan has an excellent article on it and you can google it using his name and pluripotent (IPSC) research.