One of the topics discussed at length during last night's Transhumanism and UU Adult Religious Education class at First UU Church was President Bush's appointment of Leon Kass, one of the staunchest opponents of human enhancement technology, to chair the President's Council on Bioethics. Now comes news that the science community is voicing outrage at the President's consistent attempts to distort science in order to push the agenda of religious conservatives.
The New York Times (registration required) reported today that more than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement yesterday asserting that the Bush administration had systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry at home and abroad.
Transhumanism is rapidly becoming a very hot political issue.
