Clark Withholds $60 Million Pledge to Stanford

Posted by michael on Sunday September 2, 2001 @08:17AM from the land-of-the-religious-whackos dept.

vocaljess writes: "In an op-ed piece in Friday's New York Times (which you have to register to read, blah blah blah), Netscape creator Jim Clark has announced that he will withhold $60 million he had pledged to donate to Stanford University to build a center for biomedical engineering and science. He states "I believe our country risks being thrown into a dark age of medical research. Biologists are at the threshold of the most important set of discoveries in history, and rather than teach and lead, our politicians react and follow a conservative few. This legislative action will cause the United States to miss a revolution in biology.""

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Re:I wish I were a billionaire... by notext · 2001-09-02 08:48 · Score: 3, Redundant

and oh, say, 100 million for stem cell lobbyists.

Why? Why just not use the 100 million for stem cell research? I think 90% of the people don't get the fact that they are only limited to 60 stem cells for Goverment Funding. You can use as many stem cells as you would like if you get funding from somewhere else.