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The ethics office has said that those responsible for disbursing 100 million taxpayer dollars to clone-and-kill human embryos should not have a conflict of interest:

Connecticut stem cell scientists eager to apply for $20 million in state funding will have to wait – at least until the state legislature addresses ethical concerns about the makeup of the committee that will award the money.

The state Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee authorized to dole out the funds has postponed its meetings until concerns raised by the Office of State Ethics about the makeup of the committee are addressed, a spokesman for the state public health department said Tuesday.

A majority of the committee’s members have either direct or indirect affiliations with the University of Connecticut or Yale University. Researchers from those schools are expected to get the lion’s share of the $100 million in funds that the state legislature approved last year for stem cell research over the next 10 years…

The delay worried scientists who were poised to start stem cell research projects – including human embryonic stem cell research ineligible for federal funding.

Disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk has demonstrated the level of fraud that can occur in the name of embryonic stem cell research. The ethics office is right to prevent incentives for similar scandals to occur here. Now we just need it to dawn on our legislators that the act of cloning and killing human embryos is itself unethical!

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