One would hope that science, education, and national security would be above politics. As we relearn daily, they are not.

On Monday 09 March, President Obama signed an executive order removing the limitations placed on embryonic stem cell research by President Bush. This will effectively open the coffers of borrowed and printed federal cash to those pursuing politically correct embryonic stem cell research.

While this may sound like a great approach to national research funding, the dismaying fact remains that not one single animal or human trial using embryonic stem cells has ever produced a beneficial result. Results from this research will not stimulate our economy if the research does not produce beneficial clinical results.

This is a sad commentary on the Obama administration, as it is supporting unsound politically correct science. President Obama is supporting embryonic stem cell research that does not work.

In the real world of investors, such unproductive research does not attract private investment dollars. Almost all money that has been previously invested in embryonic stem cell research has come from government sources, state and federal. Enter now the federal government with enhanced rewards for the politically correct of science and academia. Had this money been placed in umbilical or adult stem cell research, significant beneficial research may have resulted.

Funding research that does not produce beneficial results is not a logical use of money and work effort. The money could be better used for research that will produce something of value.

I had hoped that President Obama would realize supporting embryonic stem cell research that has never produced a useful result would not be good for his legacy. I thought that he would place increased emphasis on the remarkable results coming from work with stem cells from skin and other sources. One can hope.

(For more, see Mr. Conservative.)