Mort Kondracke
Mort Kondracke

The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research.

Mort Kondracke
Mort Kondracke

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

Mort Kondracke
Mort Kondracke

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

Mort Kondracke
Mort Kondracke

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.

Mort Kondracke
Mort Kondracke

Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies.

Mort Kondracke
Mort Kondracke

Research is what it's going to take to cure all these diseases.

Mort Kondracke
Mort Kondracke

At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people on the cutting edge don't get the money until they have gray beards.

Mort Kondracke
Mort Kondracke

Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grown body, and embryonic stem cells. These are the inner- core of days-old embryos that can develop into any kind of cell.