P.J. O'Rourke on Obama and the Great Stem Cell Research Sham

He has a excellent column over at the weekly standard on this issue. See Stem Cell Sham The president as sophist.

As usual as only he can do he gets to the heart of the issue and points out the BS.

Some great parts:

Fro instance as to Science verusMorality:

let me quote with serious revulsion the following passages from the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)--that great compendium of all the knowledge science possessed, carefully distinguished from ignorance and misunderstanding, as of a hundred years ago:

[T]he negro would appear to stand on a lower evolutionary plane than the white man, and to be more closely related to the highest anthropoids.
Mentally the negro is inferior to the white.
[A]fter puberty sexual matters take the first place in the negro's life and thought.
The above are quoted--not out of context--from the article titled "Negro" written by Dr. Walter Francis Willcox, chief statistician of the U.S. Census Bureau and professor of social science and statistics at Cornell. I trust I've made my point.

Good read