Stem Cell Court Decision

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/08/stem-cell-court-decision

Reason magazine, not exactly a bastion of Christian cultural conservatism, makes the essential point to counter alarmism (such as that on display in this Bloomberg News dispatch) about the consequences of Judge Royce Lamberth's decision halting embryonic stem cell research: "there is a lot of private and state funding available for stem cell research."

Not to mention that Congress can change the law that Judge Lamberth relied on to halt the research. And that federally funded research on non-embryonic stem cells, such as those from cord blood, may be just as fruitful.

No matter what you make of the ethics of embryonic stem cell research — a question on which reasonable people can disagree — the point that not all scientific or medical research needs to be funded by the federal government sometimes seems lost in the reaction to the judge's decision.

by Ira Stoll  |  Aug 24, 2010 at 2:15 pm Related Topics:  Health Care, Politics, Press receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list