This Modern World: When History Began
In a stunning reversal of Presidential policy over the last eight years, Barak 
Obama has ordered that scientific inquiry should trump religious ideology in the realm of stem-cell research. Click here to read today’s Executive Order.
Read the accompanying memo on Scientific Integrity also sent around today to the heads of Executive Departments and Agencies.
Then read former President George W. Bush’s address on stem cell research, delivered from his Crawford ranch on August 9, 2001, one month before 9/11. It’s worth it just to see him invoking Aldous Huxley’s (1932) vision of test-tube humans grown in “hatcheries.”
Remember, these are the kinds of deep philosophical questions the Decider was pondering in the immediate buildup to the Al-Qaida attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon—which apparently blindsided his administration.
