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The Unconscionable Claims of Michael J. Fox
The American Thinker ^ | October 25th, 2006 | Mary L. Davenport, MD
Posted on 10/25/2006 7:05:56 AM PDT by veronica
The popular and appealing actor Michael J. Fox has taken to the airwaves in Senate battleground states Missouri, Maryland, and New Jersey with a highly misleading ad urging defeat of Republican Senatorial candidates opposing the use of taxpayer dollars to fund new embryonic stem cell line research. He states,
“Stem cell research offers hope to millions of Americans with diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s…. But George Bush and Michael Steele would put limits on the most promising stem cell research.”
Mr. Fox and his ads’ sponsors are guilty of conflating embryonic stem cell research, which the GOP candidates and many Americans oppose for destroying a human life in the name of curing other people’s diseases, with stem cell research in general, which includes adult stem cell research and umbilical cord blood stem cell research.
The only limits in question are on federal funding of new embryonic stem cell lines, requiring the sacrifice of new embryos. Private and state-funded research (California voters are spending six billion dollars borrowing money to fund this) is ongoing. The implicit claim that research based on new embryos is “the most promising” is absurd, completely unsupported by the scientific literature, and an insult to voters, based as it is on the assumption that they are incapable of understanding the issue. Too stupid to tell the difference, is the elitist assumption underlying this campaign.
Flim-flam is a charitable description. Why would federally-funded research be more promising than state- and privately-funded research? And on what possible basis can the claim be made that embryonic stem cell research is more promising than adult stem cell research?
The plain fact is that embryonic stem cell research is proving to be a bust. There are currently 72 therapies showing human benefits using adult stem cells and zero using embryonic stem cells. Scientifically-minded readers can review this medical journal article on the status of adult stem cell research. while no such treatments are even remotely in prospect for embryonic stem cell research.
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Great article! I have spoken with several people about the embryonic stem cell question. They are support it however, I have noticed not one of them can tell me what a stem cell is. They also are under the impression that stem cell research in banned in the US because of religious nuts like President Bush. They know nothing about adult stem cells and have never heard of them. When I see polls that say 90% of American support embryonic stem cell research I believe that the people polled have not a clue as to what they are talking about. The left has done a great job of painting a picture that is totally erroneous. They then trot out there celebrity disabled and make everyone very emotional. As usual for them it is all about feeling and nothing about fact.
This article was released over two years ago, and it is an excellent rebuttal to the latest October Surprise from Michael Fox.
Thanks for the heads up on this, Grampa Dave!
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Think about 20 years from now when stem cells are routinely (everyday) used to treat dozens of medical conditions for everyone (thousands to a hundred thousand treatments per day.)
We will either be using a person's own stem cells (gathered by a doctor a few weeks before the treatement) or we will be using stem cells from stem cell factories (there are a lot of stem cells that will be required.)
Then those hundred thousand people treated per day will need to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their life because they have a whole bunch of cells in them that have the DNA of somebody else.
It is really ridiculous. Any researcher with any sense whatsoever would have long ago switched to research into using a person's own stem cells.