Bob, you are proving the point that regulations and guidelines are necessary ingredients for advances. Thanks. Michel "Robert A. Fink, M. D." wrote: > No, Charlie, please stop putting (over-reactive) words in my mouth. I > did not invoke the Nazis as being part of our government, I merely > said that I do not always *trust* government to do what it says it is > going to do. We have been sold many "bills of goods" in the past, > like de-regulation of the airline and telephone industries, > "oxygenation" of gasoline (with the huge MTBE problem that we now > have in California), de-regulation and "privatization" of the power > industry (have you seen what is happening here?). I am simply saying > that, based on my own experience, and the experience of other > colleagues in medicine, I do not trust the Government to be able to > "ride herd" on the "stem cell industry" (which will develop very soon > if it has not yet developed).