I read an article on New York Times.com called How India Reconciles Hindu values and biotech. In the U.S., stem cell research was banned in 2001 because of George Bush and the Republican Party's evangelical Christian religious beliefs. This gave pure joy to Indian researchers who excelled in stem cell research because they would have no one to compete with in their researching. In the Hindu religion, stem-cell research is allowed which could readily help everyone in the world by finding cures to some of the most common world diseases and cancers. In South Korea, one scientist used the Buddhist belief of reincarnation by cloning saying it recycled human life. Though Ghandi's religious beliefs would not allow such a thing, the new modernized version of Hinduism allows the development of nuclear weapons and biotechnology to increase its power throughout the world.
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Mishra, Pankaj " How India Reconciles with Hindu Values and Biotech". New York Times. 21 August 2005. February 15 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/weekinreview/21mishra.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2
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