Dr. Frankenstein would have felt “empowered” on Monday, March 9.

That’s the day the Obama Administration not only reversed the Bush Administration’s restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, but announced that it was freeing science from outside interference, such as people’s moral qualms.

Can’t you just picture the fictional monster creator jumping for joy?

The Obama Administration issued a memorandum “aimed at insulating scientific decisions across the federal government from political influence,” according to The Washington Post.

Think of it: No more villagers or conservative Christians lurking outside with torches and pitchforks! Scientists will be able to do anything that strikes their fancy! And with taxpayer funding!

Unlike those troglodyte Bush lackeys, the Obama Administration, we’re told, is all about pure science, untouched by something as sordid as politics. Translated, that means scientists can kill human embryos for medical research, create and distribute abortion pills without any public input, and systematically shun any contrary information.

If they have any questions about how to do this, they can consult Al Gore’s followers, who have been frantically plugging leaks in their global warming dam as fast and as effectively as the proverbial Dutch boy. What, they found a new arctic ice floe the size of California? What, a cooling period is underway as sunspots wane? Pay no attention!

Likewise, as data pour in that challenge fundamental liberal assumptions, government medicrats under the Obama mandate will feel free to ignore it in the name of science. Never mind that adult stem cells have provided medical advances for more than 70 diseases or conditions, and that embryonic lines have yielded nothing. Or that some doctors have very serious reservations about the safety of patients using procedures derived from embryonic cells.

Harold Varmus, who co-chairs President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, said the president is determined “to use sound scientific practice, responsible practice of science and evidence, instead of dogma in developing federal policy.” Continued...