Wrong, when you give money to someone or an organization, you are in essence making an "investment" in that individual or organization that the investment you made will grow (in this case not into money but into a positive change or benefit that will perpetuate). You invest money in schools with the hope that the education they receive will help those students grow even further. And just like you would any normal investment you watch it and are careful with how that investment money is used so it isn't blown on the latest fly by night scheme/false hope. A parent might give his kid money for college, but doesn't do so unquestioningly unless they want to risk being the parent of a 6th year senior who will gain little from the experience.

Necessity is the mother of invention - Plato

On the contrary, one of the unexpected benefits of the blocks on embryonic research is it has forced researchers to take a hard look at the possible uses of adult stem cells, which are more difficult to work with which provides us with an alternative that 7-8 years ago everyone was screaming didn't exist. Now we are finding that adult stem cells can be used in a lot of applications and can be gathered from a large number of donors. If it hadn't been for that, researchers would have taken the path of least resistance and only looked at embryonic stem cells for everything because adult stem cells were more difficult for them to work with initially, even if the whole ethics of the "supply" issue hadn't quite been fully understood or resolved yet. I think it worked out better this way since now both avenue's of research are now a greater possibility instead of the narrow focus on just one. Necessity is the mother of intention - Plato