The White House has claimed that Bush's firm stance against embryonic stem cell research helped to stimulate the recent breakthroughs in creating pluripotent cells without destroying embryos.
In an editorial in the Washington Post, stem cell researchers themselves respond.
The White House has claimed that Bush's firm stance against
It doesn't matter that this happened in Japan, American politics saved the day.
The other part of the win is we mostly don't give a hoot who tries to take the credit. If this is not just hype ( and 'faux' hESCs are no reason to do backflips yet) it will still help a lot of people. So they can all fight over how talking about stem cells actually created research and actual work can get done.