[.cnI redruM]

Oh, they're saying John Edwards can't wave a magic wand and make quadriplegics dance The Tango?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Consumer groups and state Sen. Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento, one of the original supporters of Proposition 71, criticized the report for failing to suggest a mechanism that would allow the state to guarantee Californians access and discounts on eventual stem cell therapies.

"Them scientists are rich! Rich, I tell ya! They owe us these profits, and we want 'em, right now!"

Ms. Ortiz could have come straight off of Wesley Mouch's staff in Atlas Shrugged.

[Brilliant]

But bankruptcy is only 5 years away.

[sinanju]

"Venture capitalists, who play a crucial role in funding the development oftechnologies once an initial discovery is made, have said they are concerned that Proposition 71 might make it too expensive or complicated for them to license stem cell intellectual property."
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State money with intellectual-property strings attached may end up killing what they wanted to promote (embryonic stem-cell research). Y'know, that might not be such a bad initiative after all.
Either way, the sketchy scientist/businessmen who are trying to sell their snake oil to the taxpayers will probably make out like bandits anyway.

[Carry_Okie]

More important: Most of the benefits will probably not accrue to California.

[Steely Tom]

And the dum-dumbs in California voted to borrow $3B to give for "research" in this area, just to poke George Bush in the eye!

Stupid California! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

(steely)

[Yo-Yo]

So Californians voted to sell $3 billion in bonds to fund stem cell research, yet haven't figured out how to license any resulting technology to pay off the bonds?

Brilliant!

[NormsRevenge]

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