[nmh]

“adult stem cells of course”

OF COURSE!

But notice how they want to blur it with “stem cells” not specifying upfront that ADULT STEM CELLS is where the progress and success is.

[GeronL]

same with “immigration” and “healthcare” instead of illegal immigration and nationalized healthcare

[Wicket]

Yep, noticed that right off. Stinkers.

[muawiyah]

Worse, the writer seems to have done "fact checking" using the internet and stopped with the first 3 references shown by google.com

Those references were from commercial sites selling people books about miracle cures.

No, 8% of the population do not have Type I diabetes ~ which is the focus of this story. Just doing a review of the percentages with Type I or Type II most authorities seem to put it at 5% of all diabetics have Type I, and 95% of all have Type II. Knowing that Type II may arise in 5% of our total population you can work out the rest. Or, put it this way, 5% of 5% is .05 times .05, or .25%, which gives us 750,000 or so Type I diabetics. On the other hand, there are only 13 million diagnosed diabetics of any kind in the USA. 5% of 13 million is 650,000 people.

The Time magazine article was trying to mislead you into believing there were over 24 million with Type I diabetes, or roughly 37 times as many Type I diabetics as there really are.

It is my conclusion that the Time Inc. employee who did the fact checking and the math for the story ALSO does the same sort of thing for homelessness!