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First the media started leaning in favor of stem cell research. Now the biologists are starting to promote it themselves. It turns out that such information has had a real impact on public opinion -- reportedly, 6 out of 10 Americans now support embryonic stem cell research.

Scientists are increasingly banding together in lobbying groupsand now forums to push their ideas on the public and on legislators. What's worse, these forums are populated by pro-biotech individuals. Why don't anti-biotech people enter these scientists' debates and organizations? What we are getting is a skewed, biased view of the isues where opposing views are marginalized.

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Scientists are increasingly banding together in lobbying groupsand now forums to push their ideas on the public and on legislators. What's worse, these forums are populated by pro-biotech individuals. Why don't anti-biotech people enter these scientists' debates and organizations? What we are getting is a skewed, biased view of the isues where opposing views are marginalized.

One of the reasons that you do not see many "anti-biotech" people publicly debating scientists, is because most of the arguments offered by the "anti-biotech" crowd are irrational. Science demands reason and fact, not emotional or faith-based arguments.

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"What we are getting is a skewed, biased view of the isues where opposing views are marginalized."

I couldn't agree more. The views you refer to are skewed and biased toward rationality and scientific reasoning, by people who are interested in advancing their, and thereby mankind's, knowledge of reality, from which untold numbers of us will almost certainly benefit someday. Exactly the kind of bias we need more of, I think. Too bad the views of anti-science and/or irrational people aren't "marginalized" more often.

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What we are getting is a skewed, biased view of the isues where opposing views are marginalized.

How "marginal" can the opposing view be, when it is the one advocated by the President of the United States of America (and, presumably, the other 4 out of 10 Americans)?

Frankly, I wish the anti-biotech views were more marginalized, to the point of being laughed out of serious debate--since most of the people who hold them are religious nuts.

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There's nothing wrong with stem-cell research, from a rational perspective. Just as there is nothing wrong with logging, and nothing wrong with the profit motive, and nothing wrong with drilling for oil in Alaska, etc., etc. However, there are plenty of irrational people doing everything they can to obstruct these things. The point about stem-cell research is that a lot of irrational people think humans are being murdered when stem-cells are used, as they do with abortion.

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