re: #8 FurryOldGuyJeans

If embryonic stem cells held such promise then why are there no major companies pursuing it? Only government grant funded agencies seem eager to see this happen.

Exactly. I believe that for BO this is ideological. In socialist/communist ideology the individual has no value except to serve the state. Unfortunately individual human lives are still very much valued in America so what better way to erode the value of the individual than to reduce human life to a commodity and nurture the notion that, as individuals, we are all simply pharmaceutical ingredients that have outlived our shelf lives?