Posted on 11/28/2010 5:11:53 PM PST by raptor22
Science: Supporters of California's failed 2004 stem-cell law will ask strapped taxpayers to support another $3 billion bond initiative in 2014. Maybe it's time to restore fiscal sanity as well as science to its rightful place.
When it was passed in 2004, Proposition 71, with its $3 billion state fund and 10-year mandate for embryonic stem-cell research (ESCR), held out the promise of imminent miracle cures for everything from spinal disorders to Parkinson's.
One campaign ad showed actor Christopher Reeve, aka Superman, asking California voters to "stand up for those who can't."
Some six years later, with about $1.1 billion dispersed, there have been $270 million worth of impressive new labs built, research papers published, and respected scientists hired at exorbitant salaries, but no miracle cures or even marketable therapies. And none is likely for years, if not decades, to come. The promised financial payback for the financially strapped citizens of California is also far off.
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Let me guess... you rode the short bus to school. From your very own posts, you claim back pain in the 4-7 range, starting in the mid-80s or so. Go back and re-read your own posts. You may apologize after that, though I won’t hold my breath!!!
That would be your post #20 and I missed the year: 1989. But not by much.
No, Kreskin I’m not. I, unlike you, do read for comprehension and retention, however.
>4-7 range<
on a daily basis .. while taking 50 mmg fentanol and anywhere from 40 - 60 mg codine / 2600 - 39000 acetaminophen per day. Without it I would just be on the floor unable to breathe.
hardly “hurting some” you nimrod
I don’t really care HOW much you hurt. Deal with it. I do. Abortion/destroying embryos is murder, period. If there’s an ADULT stem cell breakthrough, that’s a whole ‘nother matter, but that’s not what you were championing...
Your a joke.
That’s exactly what i was saying. But you wanted an argument to defend your insanity.
Don’t bother me anymore. Your a nut
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