Embryonic stem cell research

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0465046762/ref=sib_dp_ptu#reader-link
I must read this book here linked to Amazon. This is a must read.Note these excellent points
-Embryonic research to Religious right conservatives was abhorrent
-This applied to excess embryos donated for research in vitro fertilization clinics
-Orrin Hatch favored the research because of its scientific promise
-The Bush white house didn't know or didn't care about the distinctions between derivations and lines and at the time Bush did not have a permanent science advisor.
-His policy was based on science fiction.
-The Union of Concerned scientists-many of whom are leading-sweepingly denounced the Bush administration for its misuse of science.
-Dispassionate expert analysis has been scorned
-The political right's tension with scientific inquiry stems from the dynamism of science itself, "its constant onslaught on old orthodoxies"
-a deep rightist suspicion of the nation's coastal and liberal enclaves (urban enclaves)
-The right counters mainstream science, economics and political analysis per the think tanks of Brookings for example with their own brand of "thought" i.e. the Heritage Foundation
-green groups and scientific information per se are attacked as junk science
-the left is denounced in a deceptive manner as (according to conservative think tanks)politicizing science.

Note some of the topics covered in this book which I would like to expand my knowledge of- Climate change and its impacts, the EPA, the environmental movement. The latter has gone back to the bygone era of its origins in the writings of Edward
Abbey and His Desert Solitaire