Everyone alive knows embryonic stem cell research is dead on arrival. Everyone but President Obama and his administration-or do they? The dollars are flowing like a river to support research that has not produced a single cure or palliation. It has not lowered mortality or morbidity. The research has just enshrined killing. Or is there more to the story? After all there are 7 deadly sins.
Even the former National Institute of Health director Bernadette Healy once an embryonic stem cell enthusiast has called the research "obsolete".
Why are the dollars flowing like a river- money. ESR{embryonic stem cell research} is very lucrative. Funding can generate tremendous income with no treatments, because human and animal ES cells and materials and techniques used to manipulate them, can be patented. Licensing fees make them worth a fortune.
The Wall Street Journal reports that "They clearly see this as the goose that laid a golden egg" One holder of many ES cell- research patents charge $75,000 to more than $250,000 per licence plus annual payments and royalties. Last I knew money or greed is a deadly sin.
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