An End to Politicized Science…?

Maybe.  Whoever is elected on November 4th, 2008, it will be a great step forward for America, and a step out of the scientific dark ages of the Bush years.  McCain and Obama have both repudiated the Bush administration’s stance on stem cells – a purely ideological position that still threatens to cripple America’s fledgling biotech research and render us a scientific backwater – and fund science more aggressively.  If the Bush years prevented America from getting in at the ground floor on many scientific breakthroughs and industries, hopefully the door will remain open at the mezzanine.