Advocates of research involving human embryonic stem cells have won another court battle. In an opinion issued late last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed a case brought by opponents of federal financing of embryonic-stem-cell research who had filed suit on behalf of embryos, calling them human lives unfairly deprived of their constitutional and statutory rights. The lawsuit was unrelated to another pending case, Sherley v. Sebelius, that last year produced an injunction temporarily threatening some $70-million worth of federally supported research using embryonic stem cells.
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7 Responses to Critics of Stem-Cell Research Lose Another Court Case
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badger74 - April 25, 2012 at 5:31 pm
I have yet to see anyone hold a gun to any school’s head to take the bowl invite. The big bowls pay well and have millions in publicity value for the school. The smaller ones cannot extract that sort of payment. It is a business call. Is it worth it to go? Most say yes.
jack_433 - April 25, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Aren’t markets wonderful in the way they ultimately discipline the greedy?
darccity - April 26, 2012 at 12:21 am
Nope. Only the handful of BCS bowls make money for the teams playing, because they receive 93% of all bowl revenues!!! The other over 2 dozen bowls pay out chickenfeed and cost the schools big time. It’s called a “reward” but actually is just one more way to cheat the system by getting in extra practice and game time advantage for the following year’s season (as well as making recruiting much easier and productive — both because bowls give player national visibility and give teams visibility to recruit). That’s why a national playoff system can’t be adopted despite these money-losing, sparsely-attended games.
pianiste - April 26, 2012 at 7:26 am
That nobody holds a gun to any school’s head is part of the problem. Schools want to participate in these vulgar, sleazy, yahoo-driven circuses. Or at least, as darccity points out, the university’s athletic department–a de facto autonomous fiefdom which can and does tell the spineless academic part of the university to go stuff itself–wants to participate.
As for the “millions in publicity value for the school,” all I can say is, “Go, Crotchgrabbers!”
rkaffer - April 27, 2012 at 5:47 am
Did someone say “college” or “education” or “student” or “misplaced priorities”?
leftwing_conspirator - April 30, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Ask any University President what their alumni association’s reaction would be if they turned down an invite to a major bowl. The gun isn’t to their heads, but the holster is unsnapped and the hand is hovering just above it.