what makes me sick is that people tout stem cell research as the end all be all... it does have some potential, but there are many other promising technologies which don't get preferential treatment and other areas/diseases that also need to be adressed (how many people does alzheimers affect again? how many people are freshly paralyzed? - okay - now how many have HIV?)...
also many researchers just plain suck and don't get good results but they still get funding for ideas... which is bullshit.
people get all enthused/excited about the most ridiculous shit research...
like the "vitamins cause cancer" that is circling around again
this is a small issue that has very little importance IMO and stem cell research isn't going to have much effect on daily lives as people would like to believe.