Your guess won't be allowed under Proposition 71
From a legislative analyst:
"Under the measure, any funding needed for various bond-related costs (for example, the cost of administering the bond sales) would be deducted before bond proceeds were spent for other purposes.
The institute would be able to use up to 3 percent of the remaining bond proceeds for general administrative costs and up to an additional 3 percent for administrative costs associated with grantmaking activities. The remaining funds would be used for the grants and loans for research and research facilities.
Priority for research grant funding would be given to stem cell research that met the institute's criteria and was unlikely to receive federal funding. In some cases, funding could also be provided for other types of research that were determined to cure or provide new types of treatment of diseases and injuries. The institute would not be allowed to fund research on human reproductive cloning.
Up to 10 percent of the funds available for grants and loans could be used to develop scientific and medical research facilities for nonprofit entities within the first five years of the implementation of the measure."
http://www.voterguide.ss.ca.gov/propositions/prop7 1-analysis.htm
or you can read the whole thing here:
http://www.voterguide.ss.ca.gov/propositions/prop7 1text.pdf
Do you know why the facilities that do embryonic research on new lines must do it exclusively? It's because the existing facilities were funded in part because of the federal government. The solution is then to set up facilities that won't suffer under federal government interference.
Get your developmental stages right. The best embryonic stem cells come at the blastula stage. By the time the cells reach the "fetus" stage, they have become increasingly differentiated--making them less useful.
"You talk about the government choosing to spend the money as if the government was the one who earned it. The people earned it, their representatives outlawed the use of federal funds for that purpose, and the president signed it."
You could also argue that the opinion polls have said that more Americans favored stem cell research. Just because their representatives are against stem cell research does not mean that the embryonic stem cell researcher supporters are in the minority.
More regarding government funding of research:
1. Sure, there are private funds that help pay for research, but the vast amout of funding comes from the NIH and others. What the private funders can do, however, is to direct reseach to an area they think is important.
2. Do you know how the NIH got itself involved in medical research? I'll tell you a story a professor told me. FDR pushed for the March of Dimes so that kids with polio could go to this spa he really liked (among other things). There was so much money coming in that they decided to fund research. They gave money to Salk, who was working in a basement. In a couple of years, he had his vaccine ready.
3. The American public is generally supportive of government funding of research... one perception I've come to see often is that, with enough funding, there will be discoveries.
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Your guess won't be allowed under Proposition 71 From a legislative analyst: "Under the measure, any funding needed for various bond-related costs (for example, the cost of administering the bond sales) would be deducted before bond proceeds were spent for other purposes. The institute would be able to use up to 3 percent of the remaining bond proceeds for general administrative costs and up to an additional 3 percent for administrative costs associated with grantmaking activities. The remaining funds would be used for the grants and loans for research and research facilities. Priority for research grant funding would be given to stem cell research that met the institute's criteria and was unlikely to receive federal funding. In some cases, funding could also be provided for other types of research that were determined to cure or provide new types of treatment of diseases and injuries. The institute would not be allowed to fund research on human reproductive cloning. Up to 10 percent of the funds available for grants and loans could be used to develop scientific and medical research facilities for nonprofit entities within the first five years of the implementation of the measure." http://www.voterguide.ss.ca.gov/propositions/prop7 1-analysis.htm
or you can read the whole thing here:
http://www.voterguide.ss.ca.gov/propositions/prop7 1text.pdf
Do you know why the facilities that do embryonic research on new lines must do it exclusively? It's because the existing facilities were funded in part because of the federal government. The solution is then to set up facilities that won't suffer under federal government interference.
Get your developmental stages right. The best embryonic stem cells come at the blastula stage. By the time the cells reach the "fetus" stage, they have become increasingly differentiated--making them less useful.
"You talk about the government choosing to spend the money as if the government was the one who earned it. The people earned it, their representatives outlawed the use of federal funds for that purpose, and the president signed it." You could also argue that the opinion polls have said that more Americans favored stem cell research. Just because their representatives are against stem cell research does not mean that the embryonic stem cell researcher supporters are in the minority. More regarding government funding of research: 1. Sure, there are private funds that help pay for research, but the vast amout of funding comes from the NIH and others. What the private funders can do, however, is to direct reseach to an area they think is important. 2. Do you know how the NIH got itself involved in medical research? I'll tell you a story a professor told me. FDR pushed for the March of Dimes so that kids with polio could go to this spa he really liked (among other things). There was so much money coming in that they decided to fund research. They gave money to Salk, who was working in a basement. In a couple of years, he had his vaccine ready. 3. The American public is generally supportive of government funding of research... one perception I've come to see often is that, with enough funding, there will be discoveries.