H. Rex Greene, M.D. is the Medical Director, Dorothy E. Schneider Cancer Center, Mills-Peninsula Health Services, in San Mateo, California. He's also a vigorous and outspoken opponent of Proposition 71 on the November 2, 2004, California ballot.

You can hear what he has to say about this effort to sign over $3 billion in public funds (which will cost California taxpayers at least $6 billion) to a self-selected cabal of venture capitalists, bio-tech entrepreneurs, and go-getting university bureaucrats in a risky attempt to find cures for degenerative diseases where all of the downside risk will be taken on by the taxpayers of California and most of the upside benefits will be reserved for the aforementioned V.C.'s, bio-techies, and their friends and associates, by clicking here.

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