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The 50-year-old Faustman says her work also undermines an important rationale for a favored subject of diabetes research, embryonic stem cells. The hope has been to get these stem cells to turn into beta cells and thereby furnish an ample supply of the scarce tissue. The JDRF and many diabetes activists support re¬search on such stem cells,

I think this researcher broke to cardinal rules. First she threatened to cure the disease that laid the golden egg and put the LDRF people out of jobs. Second she was pursuing a cure that was not the on politically correct path.

2 posted on 12/10/2006 5:17:18 AM PST by Pontiac (All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)

Indeed. Remember peptic ulcers?

3 posted on 12/10/2006 5:51:56 AM PST by sig226 (See my profile for the democrat culture of corruption list.)

Yes, we are just supposed to "race" for a cure, not actually find a cure.

Classic humor piece:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28024

4 posted on 12/10/2006 6:08:55 AM PST by oblomov (Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee. - von Mises)

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