Posted on 10/24/2006 10:38:05 AM PDT by Dane
Actor Fox stars in campaign ad for Doyle
A television ad for Democratic Governor Jim Doyle is the latest done by actor Michael J. Fox, who's backing candidates across the country who support embryonic stem cell research.
Fox has Parkinson's disease and has recorded other ads on behalf of candidates supporting the research. The issue may have more potency here because University of Wisconsin scientists have been pioneers in the field.
Fox speaks directly into the camera, with his Parkinson tremors evident, is asking voters to re-elect Doyle. Fox says Doyle's Republican opponent, Mark Green, has stood in the way of research that could lead to cures and new jobs.
Congressman Green has voted against expanding federal funding for the research because days-old human embryos are destroyed to obtain the cells.
Fox has been politically active for Democratic causes. He campaigned for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race and lobbied Congress to lift President Bush's restrictions on funding for stem cell research.
You mean Ben Cardin who voted against stem cell research.
How convenient!
For Immediate Release
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Carla Vigue, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162
Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608-267-9661
Governor Doyle Announces $1 Million for Stem Cell Start-up Company
State has $750 Million Strategy to be America’s Stem Cell Leader
As part of his directive to provide $5 million in state funding to companies involved with stem cell research, Governor Jim Doyle today announced funding for Stem Cell Products, Inc. The funding will support the company's commercial research and development of processes to make safe, effective blood products from embryonic stem cells. The company was founded, in part, by UW-Madison biology Professor James Thomson who isolated the first human embryonic stem cell in 1998 - making Wisconsin the birthplace of stem cell research.
http://tinyurl.com/wv8dc
Yes, thank you, that is who I meant....
whewwww its been a long day today.....
;)
Embryonic stem cell research isn't 'banned'; it's just not funded by the government. If the medical industry can't find a cure using their own funding, or from funding sources like little Mikey's own Parkinsons Foundation, then maybe the collective just doesn't think you're worth it, Mikey....
Actually, confining the search for the cure on bogus arguments such as his, is actually detrimental to the range of cure possiblities. He's not only sacrificing the potential cure for himself, he is damaging the potential for numerous others who HAVE NOT used their illness for dubious political purposes. He is a despicable human being....
Are you sure that the words "stem cell" are used and not something like "somatic nuclear transitioning" or something like that? This sounds nothing like what Rush was reading today on his show.....
There are numerous examples of people that have been cured using ADULT stem cells. Why aren't we pointing this out instead of trying to refute their junk science?
Used to cure blindness:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/apr/05042907.html
...diabetes:
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/08.16/01-stemcells.html
...spinal cord injury
http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20060324084315279
I found these in just a few minutes of Googling, I remember there being many more examples last time I looked.
Embryonic Stem Cell Research Causes Tumors, New Study Shows
Rochester, NY (LifeNews.com) -- Scientists working with embryonic stem cell research on animals reconfirmed what pro-life advocates have been saying for years about it. Researcher Steven Goldman and colleagues at the University of Rochester Medical Center said injecting embryonic stem cells into the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease would cause tumors.
Goldman's research team has been injecting the controversial cells into rats that have the disease and the cells turned into tumors afterwards.
The scientists explained their findings in an article in the latest issue of Nature Medicine.
They said the embryonic stem cell injections helped some of the rats but some of the cells started growing in a manner that would eventually lead to a tumor.
"The behavioral data validate the utility of the approach. But it also raises a cautionary flag and says we are not ready for prime time yet," Goldman told the Washington Post.
He conceded that considerably more research would need to be done to determine whether the tumor problems could ever be overcome.
Parkinson's is a disease where dopamine-releasing cells in the brain die out, which leads to muscle dysfunction and can eventually cause paralysis. The goal of stem cell research in Parkinson's is to replace the dead cells with stem cells that form into new dopamine cells.
Goldman's team used human embryonic stem cells obtained by killing days-old unborn children that were grown in a special chemical used to coax them into becoming brain cells.
The team killed the rats before they could determine that the tumors that appeared to be growing actually finished appearing and they said that any embryonic stem cell treatments on humans, which has never been tried, would have to be closely monitored.
Some autopsies on the rats found tumors and that the embryonic stem cells began to grow uncontrollably rather than becoming the dopamine cells as intended.
Another team led by Ole Isacson, a Harvard Medical School professor of neuroscience and neurology, published similar results earlier this month in the online journal Stem Cells and found that the embryonic stem cells also produced tumors.
Adult stem cells have not had the same problems and have been used successfully to treat dozens of diseases and conditions. But scientists have said they don't think embryonic stem cell research will lead to a cure for Parkinson's.
University of Melbourne Emeritus Professor of Medicine Thomas Martin told Australian lawmakers recently that he did not think that embryonic stem cell research would even lead to cures for major diseases such as diabetes or Parkinson's.
Martin, an internationally recognized Fellow of the Royal Society, said the embryonic stem cells produced from human cloning would have the same problems.
Star Fox acts in campaign ad for Doyle
Fox's ad = Outright lie, it was Cardin that voted against Stem Cell Research. O'Mally's ad = outright lie, he is saying that crime in the city is way down and that the State Police have verified the city's crime statistics.
When in fact the State Police just add the totals. The best example I like to use is tell someone that I am a fruit vendor, and I have 3 apples left in one basket at the end of the day and two in another, how many apples do I have left at the end of the day?
The answer, unless they are complete Idiots, is always 5. I then ask how do they know I have 5 apples left. The reply, in most cases, is because 3+2=5. I then ask so how do you know I have 3+2 apples left. At which time, if they haven't figured out what I am doing is, because you said you had 3+2 apples left.
And there-in lies the rub, verification by the Maryland State Police involves counting the number of crimes "O'Mally" says they have. The State Police do not verify the crimes directly, they just add up O'Mally's numbers. O'Mally, just like Cardin, is nothing more then a crooked, lie at all costs because you think the voters are dumb,politician.
Shameless, like all RATS.
Slam dunk!
Exactly. Why is this NEVER mentioned in any stem cell debate??
Because the truth doesn't make Bush look bad enough.
Bravo, Dane. What is appalling about this Hollywood turd and his political activities is precisely that he plays his disability like a violin. It's great that he can afford medication that reduces his symptoms to take or not take as his political needs move him. I wonder how many people with this disease simply don't have the luxury of either having this medicine available to themn or being able to choose not to take it. Allowing him to become the de facto spokesperson for those with Parkinsons is a disgrace and those afflicted with this disease have seen their last cent from me. There are too many other diseases to give money to that have not been this basely politicized.
We, the people, are being mean according to Democrat standards if we call Michael out on this lie.
ballot issue is cloning...Missouri already has the stem cell issue covered.
Yes, Fox is deliberately lying about stem cell research and that's a shame.
But the only reason he's 1) not known and 2) not acting IS because of his Parkinson's disease. And I don't think ~we~ gain points by criticizing his acting career.
I'm just sayin'...
Poor Mikey can't make a living any other way, so he's hawking for Dems. Wonder how much he gets per commerical?
They define cloning as taking the products of SCNT and implanting them in a woman's womb. They play the game of saying it's not cloning if there is no intent to implant.
In other words, they are trying their best to deceive the public, and it looks like it's working.
What was given in post 14 is the purposefully deceptive summary of the amendment that is being given to voters and will likely be the text that appears on the ballot. One has to read the entire text of the bill to get to the truth - that cloning is not being banned at all, just the implantation of the products of cloning into the womb of a woman. (The term is Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer.)
I guess he hasn't read the latest reseaarch material that emryonic cell reasearch in rats with a "Parkinsons" like disease is giving them brain tumors. Perhaps he should volunteer to be a guinea pig.
That lady's spinal cord injury wasn't cured by the stem cells. But thsnks for the other links. They're helping in a discussion on another board.
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