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There was once a radio program called "It Pays To Be Ignorant", which
apparently was taken seriously as role models by many politicians.  But
greater aspirations should motivate Congress.
In this context, it would be appropriate to propose that in addition to
the constitutional requirements for the United States Senate, proof of
minimum IQ and education should be demanded of all our political
representatives in local and national affairs.  Persuasive oratory,
though, can sometimes offset the greatest scientific minds and can be a
potent weapon thwarting advances in the continuing battle against
diseases.
If anyone really wants to know about Nazi atrocities, just visit the US
Holocaust Memorial Museum, a few blocks away from Capitol Hill in DC
and/or ask a Holocaust survivor.

Michel


Judith Richards wrote:

> Senate Prepares to Debate Stem Cell Research
>   by Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
>
> ...............................Harkin, who supports a bill that would
> specifically allow such research, was challenging one of the bill's main
> opponents, Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback.
>
> "The Stem Cell Research Act of 2000 seeks to allow federal funding for
> researchers to kill living human embryos," Brownback told Wednesday's
> hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and
> Human Services. .................
>
> ..................
> "In some cases, you cannot see it without a microscope. To equate that
> with an individual person that Nazis were experimenting on is to stretch
> the meaning of humanness," Harkin said.
>
> "There are leftover humans of this size -- about a hundred thousand of
> them, in liquid nitrogen. Regardless of what you think about IVF, what
> are you going to do with them?"