Blog #5

How India Reconciles Hindu Values and Biotech
By Mishra Pankaj

India’s scientists are looking forward to having a chance to bring together Hindu values and stem cell research. George Bush has restricted any financing from the federal government to help stem cell research since the evangelical Christians from the Republican Party are against it. American scientists are jealous that India’s scientists can have this research since based off their religion, which is what Gandhi was inspired by; they shouldn’t be able to do the research either. If you take a deeper look into the Hindu religion there is 2 stories that wouldn’t support the American scientist’s arguments. One of the stories suggests that a woman took her extra skin and left it with herbs had produced 100 children from it. The other story is about how a pregnant woman fell asleep during a part of a war that her husband was in because she was tired then when the child was older and was fighting during the same part of fighting he was killed because he falters, showing that life begins in the womb. I think that scientists should have the right to research whatever they are comfortable with researching because if they even had the idea to go against their religion they might not be as religious as some. Also not everyone has a religion and if they are scientists they could easily find cures for many things and expand the scientific knowledge if they were not restricted by the government.

Mishra, Pankaj. "How India Reconciles Hindu Values and Biotech." The New York Time 21 Aug 2005 2. 16 Feb 2009 .