"It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda - and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology." President Obama, quoted in an AP article regarding his signing an executive order freeing up more embryonic stem cell lines for research purposes. Unfortunately it is too late for such high sounding rhetoric: scientific data is almost always manipulated to serve a political or ideological agenda. Another quote from the same article: "Promoting science 'is about letting scientists, like those here today, do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when its inconvenient - especially when its inconvenient,' Obama said." What about listening to the ethicists when they tell you that using embryos for research is destroying human life? That has evidently been found inconvenient, and no one has listened. The record does NOT support the idea that we listen to that which we find inconvenient.