Comments on: Will Salaries Sink CIRM? https://calwatchdog.com/2011/07/08/will-salaries-sink-cirm/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:27:33 +0000 hourly 1 By: David in Irvine https://calwatchdog.com/2011/07/08/will-salaries-sink-cirm/#comment-5709 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:46:43 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=19929#comment-5709 The purpose of CIRM was not to find cures for diseases, it was to thumb the collective nose of the bien pensants at the stem cell policies of the Bush administration. The financial benefit to Art Torres, however, is likely a feature and not a bug.

]]> By: Sol https://calwatchdog.com/2011/07/08/will-salaries-sink-cirm/#comment-5708 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:56:55 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=19929#comment-5708 ” A ballpark figure for the number of CIRM cures and therapies that have trickled down to patients is zero, as even their own scientists acknowledge.”

Yes that’s true and CIRM should be abolished but really, that applies to almost all government funded medical research. It really is welfare for academics and bureaucrats. Can you name one disease in the last 50 years that has been cured by government research?

]]> By: John Seiler https://calwatchdog.com/2011/07/08/will-salaries-sink-cirm/#comment-5707 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:44:29 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=19929#comment-5707 But Arnold told us that, if we voted for the bond, by now we would have cures for everything! Was that another vow he broke?

Did he ever keep a vow?

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