Remember the campaign? Poor Michael J Fox promoting embryonic stem cell research and all those liberals blaming Bush. Even saying that Superman would have been able to walk if it wasnt for Bush. Oh well, add it to the list of things he was right about.
From today;s INVESTOR'S BISS. DAILY
Five years after a budget-busting $3 billion was allocated to embryonic stem cell research [through Prop 71], there have been no cures, no therapies and little progress....
Supporters of the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, passed in 2004, held out hopes of imminent medical miracles that were being held up only by President Bush's policy of not allowing federal funding of embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) beyond existing stem cell lines and which involved the destruction of embryos created for that purpose.
Five years later, ESCR has failed to deliver and backers of Prop 71 are admitting failure. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state agency created to, as some have put it, restore science to its rightful place, is diverting funds from ESCR to research that has produced actual therapies and treatments: adult stem cell research. It not only has treated real people with real results; it also does not come with the moral baggage ESCR does.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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