Posted on 10/23/2006 4:56:41 PM PDT by minus_273
The progress of science is paved with stories of high hopes and heartbreaks. But in a busy lab at the University of Rochester the two extremes have met in one dazzling yet devastating experiment.
Researchers there have for the first time essentially cured rats of a Parkinson's-like disease using human embryonic stem cells. But 10 weeks into the trial, they discovered brain tumours had begun to grow in every animal treated.
"Here we have this method that works so well to reverse the symptoms of Parkinson's," said lead investigator Steven Goldman, "But no matter how you look at it, it's an expanding mass and that's bad news."
None of the cells growing out of control were cancerous tumours. But as Dr. Goldman pointed out, "In the brain, nothing's benign."
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The Amish don't "fear" technology.
Liars.
Who would those folks be?
That was my first thought!
LLS
Ah, the new god of techonolgy - it was technology which enable the Nazis to kill millions of Jews, Slavs, Poles, gypsies and other "undesirables" in such an organized way! Techology enables people to get sex "change" operations, too! And all the mental novocaine available - more technology. And just think! Only 90,000 people a year DIE in hospitals because someone gave them the wrong techonology.
Yes, more technology means people will be happier, yes indeed.
The story was they were being INJECTED with the stuff at some off shore clinics.
Bet some heated calls are being placed to their docs.
OK, I knew I read something like that. Thanks.
So we should do without science and technology because the Nazis perverted science and used technology for evil ends? Before modern science and technology people were ethical and happy? In parts of the world where technology is limited (such as Rwanda and Somalia) people are healthy and peaceful?
Quick, let Michael J Fox use this to cure his parkinson so that by the end of the year we can show that his whoring about embryonic stem cells have been a horrible, horrible mistake. You know those liberals love, love, love to admit their mistakes because they keep demanding that W 'admit' his mistakes all the time.
Name them. What are they used to treat? Will insurance companies pay for the treatment?
Is money good or bad? It all depends on what you use it for. In fact, if a person is stupid or evil having more power in the form of money or technology only increases their ability to cause harm.
What really makes people unhappy is their twisted minds and hearts, not lack of technology. And lots of fancy technology does not make people happier or better. There are many malignant uses of technology, and to pretend otherwise is to worship it for its own sake.
I am not opposed to all technology - I am typing at a computer using the internet, listening to music on a CD player, and my house is lighted with electricity, and there is are two vehicles parked outside. But to pretend that technological advances have made any improvement to the human spirit is worship of that which should not be worshiped, I'd call it a form of idol worship.
Look it up. Google can find the list for you. And when did insurance companies become arbiters of moral rectitude?
And do you think this will ever make it on the evening news? I have my doubts.
Minius said they exist so I think its up to him to prove it. As far as the insurance companies, you cant really call something a cure unless the insurance companies are paying for it. If they are not paying for it, its still an experimental cure, its still being tested and it may or may not work. Just because Dobson or some PRo Life folks say something is true means it is. My overall point is dont trust either the Pro Life or Pro Choice folks on this one. They are both blowing a lot of smoke.
Technology can be misused, sure... but EVERYTHING is technology.
Castles were popular up to the point the cannon was invented.
The amish use backhoes to till their fields, horse and buggies (complete with wheels!), oil lamps, axes, butter churns, and probably (manual) machinery to make their clothes. That is all technology. This techology could EASILY be misused. They have frozen themselves technologically at an ARBITRARY point in time for misguided religious reasons.
They refuse to use electricity..... why?
Many families refuse to use modern medicines.... why?
Screw the Amish.
-s
Your screen name suits you.
People have free will to use what technology they want and not use what they don't want. This bothers you, somehow?
Google overwhelmed me with links to reports, in credible medical/scientific journals, of successful treatments and even some apparent cures realized by use of adult or umbilical cord blood stem cells, often with cells obtained from the person being treated, none requiring destroying a living nascent human entity.
See, for example:
http://www.lifeissues.org/cloningstemcell/adultstemsuccess.htm
and http://www.lifenews.com/bio1134.html
Following is an excerpt from an article published in the Jour. of Clinical Oncology:
"The finding is important because more than 45,000 receive the adult stem cell transplants each year. No one has benefited from embryonic stem cells, which have caused tumors, convulsions, and patients to reject the cells when inserted".
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