Stem cell option with no ‘ethical baggage’

HUMAN embryonic stem cell (HESC) research is promoted publicly on the basis that it will soon cure a variety of human diseases.

This is simply an over-optimistic projection. The truth is that we can only hope that cures will soon be discovered, but we certainly cannot be sure. This is the nature of research.

In 1970, US President Richard Nixon announced a War on Cancer. It was confidently predicted cancer would be defeated by 1980.