Summary: New Stem Cell Agency Under Fire (California

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Stem-Cell-Meeting-Summary-Box.html

Summary: New Stem Cell Agency Under Fire
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: January 6, 2005

Filed at 6:43 a.m. ET

HUSH-HUSH: California's new stem cell agency isn't telling the public much about how it's being organized or where it will ultimately spend $3 billion in taxpayer money.

CRITICS' CORNER: First Amendment advocates are grousing about the secrecy.

LET THE SUN SHINE IN: The activists want the agency's board to conduct most of its business in public and adopt conflict-of-interest rules.

....that's the whole thing... no more at AP...

[sam sarrha]

1. if the research is against peoples religion.. leave me out of it, they can

just not use that technology when their family is dying, paralyzed or suffering hellishly. they can let their own children die.. i want to be able to help mine and my family.

with a few years study with embryonic cells they will be able to figure out how to do it with out them