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<blockquote data-quote="txag" data-source="post: 40727" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>thanks for posting the link, eric. i also found this on the site:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The phony attack on Bush's stem cell research "ban" (8/17)</p><p>By Brendan Nyhan</p><p></p><p>In his response to President Bush's radio address on August 7, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry drove home one talking point - that President Bush had banned embryonic stem cell research. He began by saying, "Three years ago, the President enacted a far-reaching ban on stem cell research" and later referred once to "the stem cell ban" and twice to "the ban on stem cell research." He never clarified his use of the word, leaving listeners to believe that President Bush has banned all stem cell research. But that is simply not true.</p><p> </p><p>The reality is that the President has actually allowed federal funding for research into embryonic stem cell lines that had already been created before August 9, 2001 (22 are currently available according to the National Institutes of Health Embryonic Stem Cell Registry). Furthermore, privately-funded research can be conducted without restrictions in the United States. The only "ban" is on federal funding for new stem cell lines that were not included in Bush's original group - hardly the meaning that Kerry suggested in his address.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, this is part of a pattern, as Slate's Will Saletan, the Washington Post and the Associated Press have all pointed out. The Kerry campaign has pounded the "ban" talking point over and over in the last few weeks.</p><p></p><p>For instance, on July 26, a Kerry press release referred to "the ban on stem cell research," and an August 7 release on Kerry's radio address also referred to the alleged "stem cell ban" in its title and uses the term "ban" four other times. Also, in an August 9 speech, vice presidential nominee John Edwards falsely claimed Bush had created a "ban" three years before. The press release promoting Edwards' speech referred in its title to a "stem cell ban" and in its first sentence to "the three year anniversary of President George Bush's ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research," which is described as an "ideologically-driven ban." Only later did it clarify the meaning of the "ban".</p><p></p><p>When pushed on this issue, the campaign's defense - given by a spokesperson to the Associated Press - rings hollow:</p><p></p><p>Kerry spokesman Phil Singer said Bush's restrictions apply to 99.9 percent of potential stem cell lines that could be studied. "If that's not a ban," he said, "we don't know what is."</p><p>But as stated previously, Bush's restrictions apply only to federal funding, not to embryonic stem cell research itself. Nor does Singer's figure even make sense. "99.9% of potential stem cell lines" is an exaggerated and meaningless figure - there an infinite number of "potential stem cell lines," and it is not true that 99.9% of currently available lines are off-limits. In May 2004, a Boston Globe survey found 51 lines available that were not eligible for federally-funded research, a number the newspaper said could rise to "more than 100" by the end of the year. In any case, the percentage of available lines that are off-limits is substantially less from 99.9%.</p><p></p><p>Other Democrats have also joined in recently. In one prominent example, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) said during her address to the Democratic National Convention on July 26 that "We also need to lift the ban on stem cell research" without clarifying the meaning of the term "ban". And in a July 13 press conference promoting the convention, New Mexico Bill Richardson, a Democrat, referred to "the need to deal with diabetes and many other diseases that are prevented from the President's ban on stem cell research."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="txag, post: 40727, member: 8"] thanks for posting the link, eric. i also found this on the site: The phony attack on Bush's stem cell research "ban" (8/17) By Brendan Nyhan In his response to President Bush's radio address on August 7, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry drove home one talking point - that President Bush had banned embryonic stem cell research. He began by saying, "Three years ago, the President enacted a far-reaching ban on stem cell research" and later referred once to "the stem cell ban" and twice to "the ban on stem cell research." He never clarified his use of the word, leaving listeners to believe that President Bush has banned all stem cell research. But that is simply not true. The reality is that the President has actually allowed federal funding for research into embryonic stem cell lines that had already been created before August 9, 2001 (22 are currently available according to the National Institutes of Health Embryonic Stem Cell Registry). Furthermore, privately-funded research can be conducted without restrictions in the United States. The only "ban" is on federal funding for new stem cell lines that were not included in Bush's original group - hardly the meaning that Kerry suggested in his address. Unfortunately, this is part of a pattern, as Slate's Will Saletan, the Washington Post and the Associated Press have all pointed out. The Kerry campaign has pounded the "ban" talking point over and over in the last few weeks. For instance, on July 26, a Kerry press release referred to "the ban on stem cell research," and an August 7 release on Kerry's radio address also referred to the alleged "stem cell ban" in its title and uses the term "ban" four other times. Also, in an August 9 speech, vice presidential nominee John Edwards falsely claimed Bush had created a "ban" three years before. The press release promoting Edwards' speech referred in its title to a "stem cell ban" and in its first sentence to "the three year anniversary of President George Bush's ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research," which is described as an "ideologically-driven ban." Only later did it clarify the meaning of the "ban". When pushed on this issue, the campaign's defense - given by a spokesperson to the Associated Press - rings hollow: Kerry spokesman Phil Singer said Bush's restrictions apply to 99.9 percent of potential stem cell lines that could be studied. "If that's not a ban," he said, "we don't know what is." But as stated previously, Bush's restrictions apply only to federal funding, not to embryonic stem cell research itself. Nor does Singer's figure even make sense. "99.9% of potential stem cell lines" is an exaggerated and meaningless figure - there an infinite number of "potential stem cell lines," and it is not true that 99.9% of currently available lines are off-limits. In May 2004, a Boston Globe survey found 51 lines available that were not eligible for federally-funded research, a number the newspaper said could rise to "more than 100" by the end of the year. In any case, the percentage of available lines that are off-limits is substantially less from 99.9%. Other Democrats have also joined in recently. In one prominent example, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) said during her address to the Democratic National Convention on July 26 that "We also need to lift the ban on stem cell research" without clarifying the meaning of the term "ban". And in a July 13 press conference promoting the convention, New Mexico Bill Richardson, a Democrat, referred to "the need to deal with diabetes and many other diseases that are prevented from the President's ban on stem cell research." [/QUOTE]
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