[gurps] Cool Nerve cell growth info

Chris J. Whitcomb rekres at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 23:47:30 CDT 2006


Susan Koziel wrote:
>   Somehow it's not a suprize about China getting the
> brightest minds in the field of stem cells... you
> could see that coming as soon as they passed the
> massively restrictive laws about stem cell research in
> Canada and the US. Eventually Canada/US/Europe will be
> the 3rd world in terms of new biomedical procedures if
> they keep passing laws telling people what they can
> and can't research. Alas.

It's generally called ethics.  I'd rather our government not support turning 
women into baby factories just so they can make money selling the aborted 
fetuses.  Sure there may be some wonderful discoveries just around the 
corner, but at what price are we willing to make those discoveries.

China has been less than concerned with human rights in the past, and 
obviously seems to be continuing in that regards....

OBGurps: Government/Corporate ethics, or rather the lack thereof, has always 
been an important theme in the Cyberpunk genre... :)



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