The Neolib Attack on Adult Stem Cells [Michael Fumento]

Michael Fumento ^ | 11.11.04 | Michael Fumento

[BlessedBeGod]

Embryonic stem cell research has suffered not from a lack of Federal funding, but from the puritanical mindset of people who believe that a non-viable group of sixteen or thirty-two cells is somehow a "person", and thus an entire line of potentially fruitful research is held back.

That's right. It's an elephant.

*rolls eyes*

[Choose Ye This Day]

Great article. Make sure you click on all the hyperlinks. This one was fascinating:

**Current Stem Cell Applications:

Acute Leukemia’s
Acute Lymphoblast Leukemia (ALL)
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)
Acute Biphenotypic Leukemia
Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia


Chronic Leukemia’s
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
Juvenile Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (JCML)
Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML)


Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Refractory Anemia (RA)
Refractory Anemia with Ringed Sideroblasts (RARS)
Refractory Anemia with Excess Blasts (RAEB)
Refractory Anemia with Excess Blasts in Transformation (RAEB-T)
Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML)


Stem Cell Disorders
Aplastic Anemia (Severe)
Fanconi Anemia
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
Pure Red Cell Aplasia


Myeloproliferative Disorders
Acute Myelofibrosis
Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia (myelofibrosis)
Polycythemia Vera
Essential Thrombocythemia


Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Hodgkin's Disease


Phagocyte Disorders
Chediak-Higashi Syndrome
Chronic Granulomatous Disease
Neutrophil Actin Deficiency
Reticular Dysgenesis


Other Inherited Disorders
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
Cartilage-Hair Hypoplasia
Glanzmann Thrombasthenia
Osteopetrosis
Adrenoleukodystrophy

Inherited Platelet Abnormalities
Amegakaryocytosis / Congenital Thrombocytopenia


Inherited Metabolic Disorders
Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS)
Hurler's Syndrome (MPS-IH)
Scheie Syndrome (MPS-IS)
Hunter's Syndrome (MPS-II)
Sanfilippo Syndrome (MPS-III)
Morquio Syndrome (MPS-IV)
Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome (MPS-VI)
Sly Syndrome, Beta-Glucuronidase Deficiency (MPS-VII)
Adrenoleukodystrophy
Mucolipidosis II (I-cell Disease)
Krabbe Disease
Gaucher's Disease
Niemann-Pick Disease
Wolman Disease
Metachromatic Leukodystrophy


Histiocytic Disorders
Familial Erythrophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
Histiocytosis-X
Hemophagocytosis


Inherited Erythrocyte Abnormalities
Beta Thalassemia Major
Sickle Cell Disease


Inherited Immune System Disorders
Ataxia-Telangiectasia
Kostmann Syndrome
Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency
DiGeorge Syndrome
Bare Lymphocyte Syndrome
Omenn's Syndrome
Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID)
SCID with Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency
Absence of T & B Cells SCID
Absence of T Cells, Normal B Cell SCID
Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome
X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Disorder


Plasma Cell Disorders
Multiple Myeloma
Plasma Cell Leukemia
Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia
Amyloidosis


Other Malignancies
Ewing Sarcoma
Neuroblastoma
Renal Cell Carcinoma
Retinoblastoma




**Potential Future Stem Cell Applications:

Alzheimer’s Disease
Cardiac Disease
Diabetes
Lupus
Multiple Sclerosis
Muscular Dystrophy
Parkinson’s Disease
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Spinal Cord Injury
Stroke

[Choose Ye This Day]

I should have specified: these are all current and possible future applications of using ADULT stem cells. No need for ghoulish baby part harvesting.

[Coleus]

Adult stem cell use is safe, effective and ethical with thirty years' of research to back it up all done without killing babies. If you click on post #4 you will find more examples of this safe, effective and ethical application of adult stem cells.

[reasonmclucus]

Scientists are just as likely to support superstition as anyone else. Unfortunately many scientists are trying to use science as a substitute for religion - a set of beliefs that are accepted without question or examination. Many once believed that there were no adult stem cells. Many also believed that no new cells were produced in the brain. Science has since shown that adult stem cells exist and they can even produce new brain cells. Unfortunately, many so-called scientists are reluctant to accept the new facts.

[Bullish]

I'm not surprised to ADCs under attack by the left. Their goal seems to be to make an industry out of abortion beyond just having abortions legal. They are hoping to make it necessary beyond a womens' "right to choose".

This is pure evil, and it needs to be stopped.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Yep. I sent this Fumento article to my confused left-leaning buddy who thinks WE are the unreasonable ones who are "blocking" progress by "preventing" stem cell research.

I cannot believe the Left was so stupid as to try to hang their hat and their election chances on unproven pseudoscience like embryonic stem cell research. The fact that they ignore all the success that adult cells have yielded leaves me with no other conclusion: the only reason the Dems want a big push on embryonic stem cell research, is that they want more abortions, and they want abortions to be seen as somehow having a "positive" effect on society.

They are ghouls without souls.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Unfortunately many scientists are trying to use science as a substitute for religion - a set of beliefs that are accepted without question or examination."

Malarkey. Let me guess, you're an "anti-evolutionist".

[Wonder Warthog]

Paragraph breaks are your friends.

[AnnaZ]

Embryonic stem cell research has suffered not from a lack of Federal funding, but from the puritanical mindset of people who believe that a non-viable group of sixteen or thirty-two cells is somehow a "person", and thus an entire line of potentially fruitful research is held back.

These folks might disagree with you:

Snowflakes Frozen Embryo Adoption Program

Embryos preserved in frozen storage offer great hope for life and for families facing fertility challenges. When a family has been successful in having a child through in vitro fertilization, embryos are often cryo-preserved, resulting in the question of what to do with them. These frozen embryos can be the hope of a child for an infertile couple. Embryo adoption shares this wonderful hope with others.

In 1997, Nightlight began the Snowflakes Frozen Embryo Adoption Program, which is helping some of the more than 400,000 frozen embryos realize their ultimate purpose – life – while sharing the hope of a child with an infertile couple. In addition to your physician, you need to trust the people you choose to help you in these important decisions.

[AnnaZ]

Michael Fumento is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Thanks for the post.

[rocksblues]

The REAL reason the liberals are so fond of ESCR is that it "might" some day provide a scientific justification for abortion.

You nailed it!

[Mr. Silverback]

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[cgk]

Pro-life/pro-baby ping...

[MHGinTN]

"... mindset of people who believe that a non-viable group of sixteen or thirty-two cells ..." Define 'non-viable', or shut the hell up with your lickspittlist defense of cannibalism. [HINT: if placed in the correct selected environment, you too are completely 'non-viable'. Would you like to participate in a 'trial to test that premise'?]

The harvesting (read stripping) of stem cells from embryos occurs when there are one-hundred or more cells built by the embryo-aged individual. This allows the 'harvesters' (read cannibals) to differentiate the inner cell mass --that builds the body for use in the air world-- from the embryo's cells building the placenta and umbilicus. You see, when the 'harvester' fails to eliminate cells building the placenta and umbilicus, the cells harvested can build placenta and umbilicus in the brain of the recipient of the cannibalized cells. In fact, this is exactly what has happened to the poor soul into whom Chinese 'researchers' injected embryo stem cells ... killed him, too.

[presidio9]

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