Posted on 10/04/2004 3:36:40 PM PDT by ambrose
Kerry is a serial liar.
Amazing! I just saw a talking head from 'American Enterprise Institute" on a balanced report on ABC, explaining that there is no "ban." Who'd a thunk it?
Here is a good article on this very subject:
Of Stem Cells and Fairy Tales
Of Stem Cells and Fairy Tales
Scientists who have been telling Nancy Reagan that embryonic stem cell research could cure Alzheimer's now admit that it isn't true.
by Wesley J. Smith
06/10/2004 3:00:00 PM
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"PEOPLE NEED A FAIRY TALE," Ronald D.G. McKay, a stem cell researcher at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, told Washington Post reporter Rick Weiss, explaining why scientists have allowed society to believe wrongly that stem cells are likely to effectively treat Alzheimer's disease. "Maybe that's unfair, but they need a story line that's relatively simple to understand."
Or maybe Big Biotech needs access to taxpayer dollars to fund embryonic stem cell and cloning research--private investors generally give companies engaged in these endeavors a cold shoulder--and they are using famous grief stricken families like the Reagans to do their political lifting. If true, it demonstrates a depth of insincerity and disingenuousness that is as cruel as it is unjustifiable.
Here's the story: Researchers have apparently known for some time that embryonic stem cells will not be an effective treatment for Alzheimer's, because as two researchers told a Senate subcommittee in May, it is a "whole brain disease," rather than a cellular disorder (such as Parkinson's). This has generally been kept out of the news. But now, Washington Post correspondent Rick Weiss, has blown the lid off of the scam, reporting that while useful abstract information might be gleaned about Alzheimer's through embryonic stem cell research, "stem cell experts confess . . . that of all the diseases that may be someday cured by embryonic stem cell treatments, Alzheimer's is among the least likely to benefit."
But people like Nancy Reagan have been allowed to believe otherwise, "a distortion"
Weiss writes that "is not being aggressively corrected by scientists." Why? The false story line helps generate public support for the biotech political agenda. As Weiss noted, "It [Nancy Reagan's statement in support of ESCR] is the kind of advocacy that researchers have craved for years, and none wants to slow its momentum."
This is a scandal. Misrepresentation by omission corrupts one of the primary purposes of science, which is to provide society objective information about the state of scientific knowledge without regard to the political consequences. Such data then serves as a foundation for crucial moral analysis about whether and how controversial fields of scientific inquiry should be regulated, a debate in which all are entitled to participate. But we can't do so intelligently if we are not told the truth.
Some scientists have become alarmed by how politicized science has become. As Roger Pielke, Jr., Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado warned two years ago in the prestigious science journal Nature, "Many scientists [now] willingly adopt tactics of demagoguery and character assassination as well as, or even instead of, reasoned argument," in promoting their views. This politicization of science, he worried, has led some scientists, "not to mention lawyers and those with commercial interests," to "manipulate 'facts' to support" their advocacy, "undermining the scientific community's ability to advise policy makers." Consequently, he warned, science "is becoming yet another playing field for power politics, complete with the trappings of political spin and a win-at-all-costs attitude."
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Stem Cells? There are Terrorists out there plotting how to Kill American Civilians, Iran is developing a Nuke, NOrrth Korea is testing missles in the Pacific and Kerry is worried about Stem Cells? MAN, everytime he opens his mouth Kerry shows even MORE reason why he is unfit to be President!
Stem cell research is the new snake oil. You can promise cures for anything and credible people will believe you.
if embryonic stem cell research had any potential, the drug companies would be pumping millions into it. They're not.
He's directly referencing Hillary-care? LOL!
Okay, all of you that spent the weekend focused on what Bush should have said, I think he heard you. It sounds like he's changed his stump speech, probably a warm up for later in the week.
That is what I heard from the begining. I learned it here on FR.
What reason is there to believe that embryonic stem cells will have any useful feature not found in some other sorts?
It seems to me that the "design purpose" of an embryonic stem cell is to spontaneously produce many different kids of cells, while the purpose of other (seemingly more useful) stem cells is to be directable to produce lots of one kind of cell. A newly-conceived embryo won't have anything external to control what its stem cells produce, so its stem cells must necessarily 'do their own thing'. But for all the therapies I know of, cells which respond to external direction are much more useful than those that direct themselves internally.
Thank you for the response. I am to posting here. But what a great site this is! I posted it because (now that the election is around the corner) I am noticing the topic coming up again. And in case someone didn't see this article, it is a good one to have on hand for people who are concerned with this. I am with the other folks who feel there are a many more pressing worries, than this one. But it's good to be prepared for everything.
Why does this acticle not mention the distinction between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells?
In fact adult stem cells were not mentioned in the article at all. From my understanding, embryonic stem cells have achieved no successful usage, whereas adult stem cells, from umbilical cord blood for example, have seen success.
This is a critical distinction and I believe it shows the mindset of the folks pushing embryonic stem cells. They support abortion and cannot allow this restriction, otherwise we head down the "slippery slope" back to sanity and restrictions on abortion.
I am very pleased to see the Bush campaign strike back today on this.
Poor Stephanie Cutter, did she see the Pew and WaPo polls come out?
Fox played a clip of President Bush at a rally today and a lady in the audience said "You sound great. Please at the next debate tell that opponent you have everything you said here today". President Bush said he would!
=== if embryonic stem cell research had any potential, the drug companies would be pumping millions into it. They're not.
No, the government is ... courtesy of our Pro-Life President who neatly DOUBLED the budget of the NIH and, with his decision on stem cells, obviated the need for them to term stem cell research "human research" since a new window of Non-Personhood had been nailed wide open.
I guess the folks we really have to thank, however, are the forward-looking GOP -- like George's Dad, then Rep. Bush and head of the GOP task force on "Earth Resources & Population" -- for establishing in 1970 a "right" to predetermine the sex of one's children.
Without this new "Right," we'd never have been in the business of profiteer third-party sex partners to ensure that homosexuals and sterile heteros alike could overcome the limits of Evolution and assure us the means for that "Great Leap Forward" only dreamt of by ardent eugenicits like the Harrimans and their business partners among the heart of the American Eugenics Society at New Haven.
bttt!
LOL!!! Do you happen to remember if that clip was run on a show that will be repeated tonight? I'd love to see it.
I would think so. Ella, was that lady at the rally shown during Brit's "Special Report"?
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