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To: nina0113

Why don’t you go put on a full body condom, a respirator and a helmet? That will protect you from most anything that could go wrong.

Sometimes we as scientists make mistakes. It happens. Making the analogy that you have here is a false one and you should think it through a little bit more.

We’re taught to manage risk as best as we can, but at some point you have to decide, release your product or scrap the research. Nothing in life is 100% assured or safe, and there’s no reason to pretend that it should be.


11 posted on 06/14/2008 8:23:38 AM PDT by AntiKev ("The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena." - Carl Sagan)
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To: AntiKev
Why don’t you go put on a full body condom, a respirator and a helmet?

keep quiet the army is thinking abou that

16 posted on 06/14/2008 8:43:17 AM PDT by Liberty2007 (Support your local conservatives.)
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To: AntiKev

How can a scientist not know that embryonic stem cells come ONLY from embryos, NOT from stillbirths or miscarriages?

Your gratuitous insult aside, there’s nothing at all wrong with my analogy. American women, and their children, were protected from thalidomide because the FDA does move slowly. Have you forgotten what happened when researchers tried to race ahead, skipping animal research and going straight to human, using fetal cells (not embryonic) to treat Alzheimers’? The patients developed teratomas inside their skulls. I believe that was also in China.


28 posted on 06/14/2008 2:43:36 PM PDT by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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