"Restoring Science"
President Obama took a jab at former President Bush with this phrase from his inaugural speech; "We will restore science to its rightful place….". This implies that science has been taken down off of some pillar that it should reside on.
Science is important in the betterment of humankind, but science must be tempered by morality (as must all things). Dubya, for example, kept federal funding for embryonic stem cell research for those cell lines already existing at the time, but his moral concerns over the issue prevented his allowing it unhindered. (Private funding is still available and, indeed, the research is continuing.) Is Obama suggesting he’ll place science above morality? Is submitting science to the scrutiny of morality robbing the former of it’s "rightful place"? Is this his worldview?
Filed under: Ethics & Morality • Science • Stem Cells
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