California Stem Cell Suits

November 18, 2005

The Human Future has an incisive critique of an AP story on lawsuits over California’s Proposition 71.

But Paul Elias wins no awards for excellent reporting in my book. He continues to parade out the same tired arguments, ad hominems and red herrings. The lawsuits which have been filed against prop. 71 have been filed because there are precendent cases in CA law surrounding issues of fiscal transparency and financial accountability, when it comes to handing out public (taxpayers) dollars. Does Elias report on that? No.

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Here is a story I would like to read about. What are the merits of these two lawsuits? How did they come to be admitted into our courts? On what precedent cases have these two lawsuits been filed? Versus a story which just attacks the people who have filed the lawsuits.

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