President Obama signed a executive order that the government will now fund stem cell research. This reverses a order that President Bush signed blocking the use of any government money to fund research on human embryonic stem cell lines created after 9 August 2001. I think most people welcome this as a step in the right direction. One of the interesting interviews after the signing was of a scientist that had gone into the jungles of Brazil, after the Bush order, to continue his experiments, being interviewed by a leading professor. Part of the interview.
*Prof. Strowski: Our government wants you to return... to continue your experiments there. Where you can have everything at your disposal.
Professor Vornoff: My dear Professor Strowski, twenty years ago I was banned from my homeland. I was classed as a madman -- a charlatan -- outlawed in the world of science which previously honored me as a genius! Now here in this forsaken jungle hell, I have proven that I am alright.
Prof. Strowski: Yes, the authorities have learned how correct your findings were. So I am here -- sent to bring you home.
Prof Vornoff: Home. I have no home. Hunted...despised... living like an animal -- the jungle is my home! But I will show the world that I can be its master. I shall perfect my own race of people -- a race of atomic supermen that will conquer the world.
Three minutes after the interview Professor Vornoff had a net thrown over him and was taken to a local mental health facility.
*I will use any excuse too inject these lines from the Ed Wood movie into this blog.
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