Clark Withholds $60 Million Pledge to Stanford

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:"A conservative few..."

[Tycho]

Now whose numbers are those "45-55%" from, how were they gathered, how old are they and what were their methodology? Were thewse numbers from a conservative think-tank, done 6 years ago, done using push polling and were the loosest standards for "conservative" used? If so that is a useless number. I'd look at the latest elections, Gore won the popular vote, the Democrats control the Senate and control of the House is slowly slipping though the fingers of the Republicans. Getting back on topic, in the polls I heard 60% of those polled were for stem cell research.