We spend $6 billion a year on tax money trying to cure AIDS --a disease that is 100% preventable (excluding blood transfusion recipients and babies born to infected mothers). Most diseases are lucky to get $100 million a year in taxpayer funding for research.
Stem cell research has the potential to cure many horrible ailments. It is a far worthier investment than the billions spent trying to cure AIDS.
I refer you to post 14. A wise person wrote it.
Yes, but all of the promising stem cell research projects use either adult stem cells or ones from umbilical cords. We're so tied up in the "politically correct " push for embryonic stem cells that we can't focus on where the successful experiments really are.
There have been successes with umbilical cord cells and adult cells from bone marrow, fat, and nose cells. Not from embryos.
If I had to choose, I'd say let's invest most of our money in stem cells from adult fat tissue. We have a never ending supply of that. A lot of people would be willing donors, for sure.