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California Stem Cell Agency Exaggerated Its Role in Funding Key Research
Date:4/16/2008

outlining the research findings was submitted to "Cancer Cell" on Sept. 19, 2007.

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"CIRM is too eager to claim immediate results," said Simpson. "Certainly we'll see great benefit as the result of stem cell research, but this political manipulation and hype does a tremendous disservice to all who believe in the value of this research."

After Jensen asked questions about the CIRM release, the agency modified the version posted on its website to note that an earlier CIRM training grant had gone to pay the salary of a post doctoral researcher in Jamieson's laboratory.

"Stem cell agency officials repeatedly say, 'It's all about the science,'" said Simpson. "If only that were true. More often than not -- as in this case -- it's all about appearances, hype and claiming credit."

Proposition 71 that created CIRM passed by 59 percent of Californians voting in 2004. Consumer Watchdog's Stem Cell Oversight and Accountability Project is working to ensure that California's landmark stem cell research program offers accessible and affordable cures and treatments to the taxpayers who have funded it. The program will sell $3 billion in bonds over a decade to fund stem cell research. Financing charges mean the project, the largest source of stem cell research funding in the world, will cost California taxpayers $6 billion.

Consumer Watchdog, formerly the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, is California's leading non-profit and non-partisan consumer watchdog group. For more information visit us on the web at: http://www.ConsumerWatchdog.org.


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