Posted on 11/25/2010 11:18:42 AM PST by Nachum
After six years, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has faced questions about leaders' pay and the lack of medical breakthroughs. But its chairman plans to ask voters for another $3 billion in bonds.
When millionaire Silicon Valley real estate developer Bob Klein launched his ballot drive to create a $3-billion state fund for stem-cell research in 2004, he pitched it as a way of taking politics out of science and focusing on cures. One particularly heartbreaking campaign ad showed former big screen Superman Christopher Reeve paralyzed in a wheelchair, struggling for breath and imploring California voters to "stand up for those who can't."
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Shut down this BAD JOKE on the Taxpayers.
CA voters are stupid. They’ll probably fork over more money for embryonic stem cell research despite the fact there hasn’t been one breakthrough since it was initially funded. Its a liberal scam right next up there with climate change. People are just gullible.
LMAO!!
Is there any doubt California voters will fall for this again?
They will fall for anything, again and again and again...
Yup. Being good liberals, they’re suckers for anything that tugs their emotional heartstrings. Its a waste of a state!
This point needs to be used repeatedly. It is not helping, rather, it is diverting funding from promising research to unpromising research.
Oh, and by the way, California is broke. Cut it all.
Given that CA has abortion on demand, you’d think they’d find something after all these years. Apparently, all that stem cell money went down a black hole.
Did Christopher Reeve stand up yet? Oh, that’s right, he died of a heart attack a month before the bond issue was passed. Well, maybe they will throw another three billion down the drain in his memory.
Illinois great and glorious Governor Blago extracted 10 million with out a vote for ‘stem cell research’ .
Not much news on that one?
No doubt they will find it especially appealing to learn that more of their tax dollars will be used to destroy human lives. Perhaps Senator Babs "Abortion Is Cool" Boxer could help out with this campaign.
Pay them in warrants.
I gotta ping this one out.
Even if you are not pro-life. This agency is a total waste of money. I hope when California demands a bailout, I hope congress forces the closure of this agency.
Amazing. I didn’t know pluripotent cells could be bent to our will. The only results I have read about is that they become teratomas, because, that’s basically what they are. Miniscule “any tissue in the body” cells.
Just remember...embryonic stem cell research is still in it’s pre-infancy.
DK
The results of this experiment were in a magazine I read while waiting in a doctor`s office for an appointment about two months ago.I don`t remember the title or the actual source institute,it merely said that they were using a new way of getting RNA to implant the genetic trigger to reprogram. Given RNA is the natural messenger system anyway, this new method left no detectable extraneous genetic information, as viral carriers have. I`d imagine they still have some ways to go before they start any trials, but try a web search for more information.Even so, most leftists seem to forget the fact that adult stem cell techniques have been in use for decades, just look at bone marrow tranplants, for starters.
For starters http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/09/a-better-way-to-reprogram-cells.html or do a keyword search “RNA stemcell reprograming” of http://www.dogpile.com
Who among us is be surprised universities getting the most funds are represented on the governing board? What a farce.
Will voters who didn't see how foolish this deal was in 2004 vote for more borrowing with no meaningful results from the "research" and only fattened bank accounts for a few in bad economic times to show for the billions?
I wish I had faith in the CA voter to see through this scam when they return to ask for more billions but I do not.
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