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12.03.07 -- 11:19PM
By Josh Marshall

This is a pleasure to read. Recently, Charles Krauthammer wrote an aggressively vapid column claiming that the recent breakthrough in stem cell research, which allows scientists to trick skin cells into acting like embryonic stem cells, vindicates the restrictions President Bush placed in the way of stem cell research. He called attention to the work of James A. Thomson, the researcher who was both the first scientist to create embryonic stem cells and was also the key researcher on the new breakthrough. Today, Thomson and Alan Leshner respond, explaining that his conclusions are flawed and that he doesn't understand the basic science.

If only it were so easy on foreign policy ...

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