Now the Question Remains: Government or Private investing?

This has been a huge hot button issues in very ( and i mean very) recent political history. I am over course referring to the debate to publicly fund embryonic stem cell research.
Today researchers in Japan and the U.S. have discovered a way make adult stem cells change back into embryonic stem cells. These embryonic stem cells are the cells that scientist can turn into another type of cell, which makes scientist think it is very possible to use these cells to repair damage cells.

This eliminates the root cause of debate in the first place. It is possible now to have embryonic
cells with out having to create and destroy a embryo ( who some including myself consider life). With this new break through, the debate should just go away should it not?

Not gonna happen. Many forget that the center of the debate is not over whether embryonic stem cell research is bad or not, but rather whether the Federal Government should help fund the research. Many on the left believe that without Government funding, this potential to save lives is going to disappear forever. Besides, we would not make a big deal of it if it wasn't so promising right?

But this is the problem. A lack of private investing into embryonic stem cell research proves that the research is not showing results that drug companies find enticing. When ever a drug company finds out about research that is promising, they invest to hopefully be able to market a cure for profit. Do you really think drug companies sit by and let a chance to capitalize on a idea pass by?

If a private company which has a incentive to invest in the research will not waste its money on it, why should are tax dollars be spent instead.

I am glad we have reached a point where stem cell research may no longer cross ethical boundaries, but now we need these researchers to turn out results. With the budget in the crisis it currently is in, we do not need to throw money at something that should be privately funded.

Besides, tossing dollars at something does not automatically make it better, as we can see in the countless government programs that fail to perform as they should.