Re: OT Idiotic traitor Kerry wants to filibuster Alito! ROFLMAO

> science types' are Democrats.....

> ROFLMAO

Well, they sure ain't Bush supporting retards. Let me post
the contentsof one those links you chose to go in denial
about:

US scientists, angered by Bush policies, side with Kerry
WASHINGTON (AFP) Oct 11, 2004
Prominent US scientists, including several Nobel laureates,
have taken Senator John Kerry's side in the country's
presidential campaign, blasting President George W. Bush
for his opposition to stem cell research and his environmental
record.

Some 5,000 researchers and engineers joined 48 Nobel
laureates in a June letter accusing the Bush administration
of ignoring "unbiased scientific advice in the policymaking
that is so important to our collective welfare."

Charging that the Republican president was "compromising
our future," the scientists said they support Kerry in the
November 2 election because "he will restore science to its
appropriate place in government."

In late September, a group called Scientists and Engineers
for Change, which includes 10 Nobel laureates, hit the
campaign trail in the most disputed US states to denounce
Bush's policies.

"From downgrading of the position of science adviser, to tepid
support for scientific funding and opportunities, to distorting
scientific advice and findings, the Bush administration has
pioneered a less-than ethical approach to scientific
policymaking that will harm our nation for years to come," the
group says on its website.

Admonishing the president's critics, Bush's science adviser
John Marburger said, "I don't like to see science exploited for
political purposes."

The science community has also come down hard against
Bush over his decision to restrict publicly funded stem cell
research.

Stem cell research supporters argue that the science could
be used to find a cure to diseases such as Parkinson's and
Alzheimer's.

In August 2001, Bush banned the use of public funds for
stem cell research using human embryos, apart from those
previously cultivated. The ban did not apply to private sector
research.

"The really important questions here are ethical questions,
not science questions," Marburger said.

Kerry has vowed to remove Bush's restrictions, if elected
president.

To counter Bush's position, Democrats recruited the son
of the late former president Ronald Reagan to speak at the
Democratic National Convention in July.

Ron Reagan, whose father died after a long struggle with
Alzheimer's disease, said, "We can choose between the
future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between
true compassion and mere ideology."

Scientists also accuse the administration of excluding views
from advisory boards critical of Bush policy.

Several climate experts have complained that they were
unable to include in official reports information linking pollution
and global warming.

"It's so egregious what this administration is doing, particularly
in regards to the environment," said Herbert Needleman, a
physicist at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "And
their whole approach to global warming has been ignorant and
cynical."

Vincent Cerf, one of the Internet's architects and a Republican,
accused the administration of making drastic budget cuts that
could cost the United States' scientific advances, a charge the
White House denies.

"Science counts, and it has not counted sufficiently in this
administration," Cerf said. "The United States is at risk of losing
the edge."

-BC

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