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From MGHinTn:

America doesn't seem to care that such exploitation is cannibalism, so perhaps they'll react to being lied to and disdained by not being given the facts on adult stem cells.

We were talking about the ethics of stem cell research not the science. Sometimes you have to read through the thread before you realize what bent the discussion is taking before you attack someone. I was being rhetorical when I asked him about Dobson's knowledge of the future. I am for stem cell research. I don't consider it cannibalism as he does.

How does he know? Can he see into the future?

These are your words. You made an arrogant challenge that had nothing to do with ethics.

I am for stem cell research. I don't consider it cannibalism as he does.

The ethical discussion is incomplete without establishing the effectiveness of the procedures and science. Before we throw limited resources after Frankensteinian science and voodoo cannibalism, maybe we should determine if there is any future in this procedure. The clinicians and scientists I know rightly call it political medicine. You however are for a dangerous and ineffective treatment that the leaders in both Parkinsonian and Alzheimer treatment do not believe in. Why would you embrace an immoral and dangerous treatment, taking resources away from promising cures in contradiction to the actual expert opinion? Is this your definition of ethics?

Sometimes you have to read through the thread before you realize what bent the discussion is taking before you attack someone.

Maybe you should heed your own words and keep your own arrogance and pretentiousness in check. Read what is available on Medline. Read what others have posted. Accept that tragic human experiments have already taken place resulting in death to patients. Ponder for awhile the evil and the arrogance of using fetal tissue to kill patients in the race to establish the rightness of "political medicine".