Ox Fall Down

"Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson argued that before the current policy is relaxed to permit broader use of stem cells, "we must first exhaust the potential" of the lines approved in 2001. In view of the new lines that have already been derived and that are now available for research funded by nonfederal sources, as well as the findings that are sure to emerge from such research, Thompson's stance will increasingly be analogous to requiring the exhaustive use of slide rules for all computations before allowing computers to be powered up."