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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
 The funding fairy? Alan Greenspan? Ustwo? 
Just kidding about that last one. We all know he wouldn't fund anything that wasn't already pure evil. 
Seriously, I don't see the point of your question to my response. Mine was more of "the good ideas have already been thought of already" variety. If scientists figured out how to do their research with more readily available materials, they're going to do it, especially if the results are going to yield easy cures for fatal diseases. If you're implying that scientists are ignoring easily available material in pursuit of more funding, let's see your proof. I assume that's not what you're trying to tell me, though.
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Hey, he called mine small....
The idea is that scientists and researchers might be hindered in their abilities and exploration by those that fund them is nothing new. I know that scientists and researchers are out there to cure this and that, but they have to pander to their benificiaries or lose their funding. We all know that. It would be niave to say that science isn't effeced by politics. Did we already forget about the Dickey Amendment? Clinton signed federal legislation that prohibited the HHS from using appriopriated funds for any stem cell research in which the embryo is destroyed. I'm sure Ustwo can tell you that does cut a lot of funding for stem cell research, and it's a decision made on (religous?) morality, not science. They aren't ignoring anything, they simply aren't funded so they CAN'T do their research.