Re: This is pathetic. REpublicans really have no bottomto their character

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The concern you feel is not valid.  The research is going to go on.  It 
just won't happen in America.  The results and benefits will fall to 
others, not us.  I suspect China or India may be the country that 
prevails.  The US will slip to second-rate fast enough, but this will 
just rush the slide.



Wayne McAlpine wrote:
> I acknowledged the ethical dimensions of the problem and called for 
> rational people to hammer out a means of doing the research without 
> overstepping ethical bounds.  But that won't work if one side won't even 
> discuss it.  This research could have incalculable benefits for mankind, 
> and it's being stymied by a small group of obstructionists.  Reminds me 
> of what they did to Galileo.