This Blog considers assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, radical environmentalism, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. My views expressed here, as in my books and other writings, reflect my understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: human life matters. (The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.)
I just checked at the NIH Web site to see the latest NIH funding levels for ESCR. Wow. Between fiscal 2003-2007, the Feds will have shelled out approximately $161 million for human embryonic stem cell research. Add in $492 million for ESCR in animals, and the total over five years comes to a whopping $653 million!
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 12:49 PM
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I am a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute and the author of 12 books, including A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy, which is relevant to the issues considered by this blog.
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Cant' be true. They must have misreported the numbers. After all, Senator Specter says "It is scandalous that eight years have passed since we have known about stem cell research and the potential to conquer all known maladies, and federal funds have not been available for the research."
Somehow I know you aren't going to think that's funny.
Facts are inconvenient things, or something like that.
And then add in state support, and drug company research paid for by people's health care premiums, and it starts to be real money. How many people die in this country from treatable diseases every year because we spend our money on genetic engineering research? Let's put some names on those figures, and show how just a small percentage of that money could have paid for an operation or medicine for them.
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