[extropy-chat] Three-quarters of N. American's support stem cellresearch

Reason reason at longevitymeme.org
Sun Jun 20 00:02:28 UTC 2004



--> J. Andrew Rogers

> It isn't like the government is banning research, they simply aren't
> allowing federal money to be spent on it.  There is a hell of a lot of
> private research money, most of which is far better spent anyway.

It is annoying that people make this argument while ignoring the effects of
government policy - existing and threatened - on private funding. In case
you hadn't noticed, the threat of a complete ban on therapeutic cloning and
stem cell research has been hovvering close over the industry in the US for
the past two years. The same or worse goes for Europe. Substantial private
funding just doesn't happen under those circumstances - the risk is too
great.

Reason
Founder, Longevity Meme




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