Senate Majority Leader 'Dr. Death'

Frist to Back Taxpayer Funded Stem Cell Research
WASHINGTON -- In a break with President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, has decided to support a bill to expand federal financing for embryonic stem cell research, a move that could push it closer to passage and force a confrontation with the White House, which is threatening to veto the measure. Mr. Frist, a heart-lung transplant surgeon who said last month that he did not back expanding financing "at this juncture," is expected to announce his decision Friday morning in a lengthy Senate speech.

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Junk Science: Stem Cell Smoke and Mirrors
The reason that embryonic stem cell researchers are agitating for taxpayer money is that their private funding has dried up. Private investors and venture capitalists are not investing in embryonic stem cell research because they perceive it to be a pipe dream unlikely to produce any progress and, hence, investment returns, in any reasonable time frame. The bottom line is that if embryonic stem cell research had real promise, private investment would be overflowing into biotech companies. But it's not..

Pro-life quiz
Who started federal funding for human embryo stem cell research?
As president, Ronald Reagan banned federal funding for any biomedical research that used fetal tissue. Which President started federal funding for human embryo stem cell research reversing Reagan's fetal tissue policy? It was the so called "born-again pro-life President" George W. Bush. -- (Read: Remarks by the President on Stem Cell Research, The Bush Ranch Crawford, Texas, August 9, 2001)

Posted by Editor at July 29, 2005 07:16 AM