Another Blow to Fetal Stem Cell Research

[The_Dark]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/12/23/skore...l.ap/index.html

For those that don't remember the original story.. the guy claimed to have cloned stem cells.

[phee]

Interesting

[saechalyn]

That's too bad.

[Homicidalheathen]

:blink WOW :blink

Yah I remember reading about this in a science mag and they claimed it would be a hope for all kinds of illness.

How can someone go this long, spend that much money.......and no one knew????

Sneeky little devil. Tons of money wasted.....

[The_Dark]

Because special interest groups are pushing it so hard. They dont really care about what works and what doesn't wrok. They have a predetermined idea of what they want to wrok and are willing to accept any result that supports that idea. They ignore all the research that goes against that idea.

[HipsterDufus]

Stem cell research freaks me out. It's just got a gross/unnatural factor to it to me...

Geesh, how long do we want people to live anyways?

[The_Dark]

I dont have a problem with Stem Cell research for the most part. Embryonic and Adult stem cell research are both making great strides forward in medical science. They just may one day find a cure for the various deseases that cause dementia and reverse nerve damage.

I am on the other hand against Fetal stem cell research and not at all for religious/political reasons. Purely based on science. Fetal Stem cells have produced nothing in the lab except dead cell colonys and cancer growths. All the advances in stem cell research have been made with either adult or embilical stem cells.

The promise that Chris Reeves is going to rise from the grave... walking, talking and playing superman again if only we spend federal funds on fetal stem cell research is all political crap. The research shows otherwise.

[Crazed Vampyress]

fabricating results to something you are really trying to achieve can only come back to bite you in the ass, its two steps backwards in the end.