Secondhand Smoke: Your 24/7 Seminar on Bioethics and the Importance of Being Human: ESCR Funding Politics: It is About the Pork

Secondhand Smoke: Your 24/7 Seminar on Bioethics and the Importance of Being Human

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.)

Thursday, April 12, 2007

ESCR Funding Politics: It is About the Pork

Stock prices for embryonic stem cell research companies took a hit when the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill to overturn President Bush's stem cell funding policy by a veto proof margin. Worcester, MA's, Advanced Cell Technology--which opened an office in California to try and take advantage of the cornicopia of Proposition 71 money--lost value, as did California's Geron. Some adult stem cell companies also lost ground, but others gained.

Well, the market doesn't lie: A big part of the drive to overturn Bush's policy is pure corporate welfare pork. Sooweeee!