Stephen Green of VodkaPundit has posted an excellent article debunking the ethical issues surrounding stem cell research and how the efforts of conservatives and Bush sabotaging stem cell research is relegating the country to back-benches.

How bright is the future of a nation whose best minds can contribute to the economy for a century or more, instead of a mere 40 years?

How bright is the future of a nation that can produce better minds in an ever-growing portion of the population?

How goddamned stupid are some people, for wanting to put a legal cap on our human capital?

The race is just beginning. This moment, right now, is when we need to be building the highest-tech research centers. We need to have our best minds working on the problem – and if we don’t have enough of the best minds, we need to hire them away from other countries. We need to encourage our college-bound kids with promises of wealth and glory, and then we need to deliver on those promises.

But we’re not doing those things.

The starter’s pistol has fired, and our President and his Council are busy tying their shoelaces together. As another, smarter President Bush once said, “we’re in deep doo-doo.”

My concerns exactly.

You can read the full article here.