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To: mountaineer
From a blog called "Grouchy Old Cripple"....

Warning...Salty Language on the blog.

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What is it with John Fonda Kerry and the crips? First he uses Stumpy Cleland as a prop and now he has to drag Christopher Reeve in when discussing stem cells. Two things:

1. The lady made a point. So far adult stem cells have shown far more promise than embryonic stem cells.

2. Christopher Reeve is never gonna walk again without mechanical assistance. Even if they could magically get his nerves (which are upper motor neurons) to grow across the scar tissue in his spinal cord and regenerate all the way down the cord they would then have to regenerate the nerves (lower motor neurons) outside the cord. Everything below his level of injury is completely dead and gone. As a crip myself I keep track of this sh*t. We are years away from regrowing upper and lower motor neurons from scratch which is what would have to take place.

7 posted on 10/11/2004 6:15:29 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen (Have a burger and a beer and enjoy your liquid vegetables.)
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To: Vigilantcitizen

Kerry is despicable.


14 posted on 10/11/2004 6:19:34 PM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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