“While lifting the Bush administration’s restrictions on federally financed human embryonic stem cell research, President Obama intends to avoid the thorniest question in the debate: whether taxpayer dollars should be used to experiment on embryos themselves, two senior administration officials said Sunday.” (New York Times, Monday)
Why must the taxpayer foot the bill?
FEE Timely Classic
“Government Should Fund Science? It Just Ain’t So!” (pdf) by Sheldon Richman