So, what does a bioethics panel do anyway? Do they allocate funding to science labs and studies and such? Do they tell the president which fields of research to support and which to outlaw? Or do they just sit around all day talking? This speaks to your concerns knifey, because I don't see where Bush's science policies are more dangerous than Clinton's personality flaws. As president, Bush doesn't have the time or the education to contribute to science or the scientific community in any meaningful way. I don't mind if a few do-nothing government employees get paid out of my taxes; their wages are minimal compared to the millions that go to legislators who don't represent my interests. I don't care if genetic research slows to a stop in the U.S.; we don't have a monopoly on science in this country. Let the man do what he wants, since he's powerless to stop scientists and scientists are powerless to stop him.
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