All stem cell funding in jeopardy, NIH says

Stem cell research is caught in the chasm between emotional principles and scientific promise. It is today's equivalence of The Galileo Controversy, "It is commonly believed that the Catholic Church persecuted Galileo for abandoning the geocentric (earth-at-the-center) view of the solar system for the heliocentric (sun-at-the-center) view." The National Cancer Institute gives a sobering assessment on the potential of cancer striking an American family. "Three out of every four American families will have at least one family member diagnosed with cancer." Is it just to tell 75 percent of America's families that your love one needs to die or have an awful quality of life because we will encumber research? Yet the real tragedy for America's research leadership is other nations will continue to make advancements as we sort out whether we will embrace unencumbered scientific advancements or our allow zealots to kill progress.