Stem Cell research

[Fake Messiah]

So, the upshot seems to be that religiously-motivated people are getting in the way of demonstrably beneficial scientific research.  I am profoundly shocked.

Boru

Well I guess you said it in a sarcastic way, but it does seem shocking considering that other religions are not interested with interfering in science. Like religions in Asia. Or old pagan religions that did embraced rationalism and scientific inquiry as a way to understand the world. Think of the accomplishments of people like Aristotle, Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Democritus, Archimedes, Pliny the Elder, Theophrastus, Galen, and Euclid. You could even say that paganism improved on science.
No other religion created something even close to Catholic infamous Index Librorum Prohibitorum, which for four centuries forbade reading of mostly scientific books like Kepler, Francis Bacon, Erasmus Darwin, Copernicus, and Galileo.

Only Christianity (and sometimes Islam) has this vile attitude toward human well being. For instance in US there are over 600 Catholic hospitals and that's so that they can promote their vile creed where they won't threat people they see unfit to the point they see it's better for someone to die. And why are they let to lead hospitals? It's not like they're donating money (they get it from government) or that they know medicine and actually heal people - they just stand above and decide who is suitable for healing and who is not.