The Politicization and Bastardization of Science, Continued

Via CalPundit, this news from the WaPo:

President Bush yesterday dismissed two members of his handpicked Council on Bioethics — a scientist and a moral philosopher who had been among the more outspoken advocates for research on human embryo cells.

In their places he appointed three new members, including a doctor who has called for more religion in public life, a political scientist who has spoken out precisely against the research that the dismissed members supported, and another who has written about the immorality of abortion and the “threats of biotechnology.”

Never adjust policy in response to information. Simply pick and choose scientists so as to adapt the information to policy.

AB