ok…my 2 cents worth..
i object to the government funding stem cell recearch, not for religious reasons, but for monetary reasons.
the government takes my money in the form of taxes….
the government gives my money to a researcher in the form of a grant…..
the researcher makes a break thru discovery and creates the next merical cure….
the researcher sells the rights and gets rich..
the drug company sells the drug and makes billions of dollars….
where is the return on the money i invested, unwillingly, in this chain?
if you invent something on company time with company equiptment, and company funding, the patent and profits of that invention belong to the company…..
but….
if you invent something with taxpayer funding, you get rich and the taxpayer gets…….
NOTHING.
let the drug companies who are going to get rich and famous curing altzhimers, ect, ect, ect put up the money to do the research and don’t forse the hard working taxpayers to do it for them.