The
Pentagon, which once saw eye-to-eye with the White
House, seems to be fighting them lately, when it comes to
the Bush administration's embrace of
junk
science. First they issued a report on the military dangers of
global warming, despite the administration's denials that this
is a major problem and its inaction on measures to solve it.
Now they've granted $240,000 to Swedish scientists for
embryonic stem-cell research to help find a cure for
Parkinson's disease, in a study that could not be done here
due to government limits on stem-cell research.
Lund University in Sweden says the U.S. Department of
Defense is supporting their study because the findings could
be used to treat similar neurological illnesses in soldiers,
caused by battlefield toxins. "The goal is to develop a line of
human embryonic stem cells which can be transplanted to
test animals with a disease resembling Parkinson's," says
researcher Patrik Brundin. The research team asked for
funding from the Michael J. Fox Foundation, started by the
American actor who suffers from Parkinson's. Fox forwarded
the application to the Pentagon, which agreed to fund the
study.
One way to have your religion and your science too is
to "farm out" controversial scientific studies to other
countries that see no contradiction between their beliefs and
their scientific investigations?but is this honest?
We face tough problems in the future, and it's time to expand
our minds, not close them off. Can we learn how to send our
minds beyond the boundaries of the ordinary and learn to do
incredible things? Russell Targ can show
you how to discover which of your own dreams are
precognitive, become capable of remote diagnosis of the
illnesses of others, and many other things that we are told by
a lying media are impossible?all on this week's
Dreamland. Subscribers: Meet Laurel Chiten, who
knew nothing about abductees until she met Dr. John Mack,
and decided to make a film about him.
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