stemming the cell stupidity
Yeah, George vetoed the legislation calling for federal funding of stem cell research, essentially bringing it to a screeching halt, and sucking the hope for a cure from countless suffering, disease riddled Americans. What an idiot.
That's the take you'll hear on our liberal network news, and parroted by all the folks out there who take everything they say as Gospel. I don't blame those people. They were brought up believing the network news folks gave us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and they're steadfastly sticking with it. "Katie Couric said it on TV. It's gotta be true, man." (And Katie, the American Studies major in college, knows her stem cells.)
The problem is, it's bullshit. Stem cell research is alive and well, and has nothing to do with George Bush, or the federal government, or its money, as it should be. Keep the political scientists' noses out of the real science arena...on both sides of the floor.
Dubya vetoed legislation funding embryonic stem cell research. That isn't the only kind there is, and adult stem cell research is making strides for which embryonic stem cell research is only promising potential. The benefit embryonic stem cells potentially have over adult stem cells is that they haven't specialized into a certain tissue type yet, so potentially they could be made to specialize the way researchers want them to. Potentially. Nobody's actually done it yet.
Adult stem cell research is alive and well. The reason adult stem cell research funding hasn't been vetoed by Dubya is because nobody's asking for it. Real investors see what's being done with it and are standing in line to be part of it. It's getting results without federal dollars. There are reports of successful treatment of Crohn's disease with adult stem cells, and the future looks bright for far more. Embryonic stem cells are still brimming with potential, yet haven't done squat. If they had, nobody would be at the federal trough with their tongue hanging out. Investors, seeing what the possibilities are, would be jumping over each other to get in on the action.
This science stuff is really cool, until it doesn't support the liberal agenda. When it stops doing that, it needs to be ignored or swept under the rug. Adult stem cell research doesn't make a case for reusing the tissue of dead aborted babies to save lives, thus somehow morbidly justifying the reality of dead aborted babies, so Katie Couric isn't trumpeting its cause. Nobody's trotting out those expert scientist celebrities like Nancy Regan or Christopher Reeve (may he rest in peace) to plead for it. We just hear about how ignorant, uncaring Dubya stopped stem cell research, and how there is no liberal bias in the news. Riiiight. You go Katie!
That's the take you'll hear on our liberal network news, and parroted by all the folks out there who take everything they say as Gospel. I don't blame those people. They were brought up believing the network news folks gave us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and they're steadfastly sticking with it. "Katie Couric said it on TV. It's gotta be true, man." (And Katie, the American Studies major in college, knows her stem cells.)
The problem is, it's bullshit. Stem cell research is alive and well, and has nothing to do with George Bush, or the federal government, or its money, as it should be. Keep the political scientists' noses out of the real science arena...on both sides of the floor.
Dubya vetoed legislation funding embryonic stem cell research. That isn't the only kind there is, and adult stem cell research is making strides for which embryonic stem cell research is only promising potential. The benefit embryonic stem cells potentially have over adult stem cells is that they haven't specialized into a certain tissue type yet, so potentially they could be made to specialize the way researchers want them to. Potentially. Nobody's actually done it yet.
Adult stem cell research is alive and well. The reason adult stem cell research funding hasn't been vetoed by Dubya is because nobody's asking for it. Real investors see what's being done with it and are standing in line to be part of it. It's getting results without federal dollars. There are reports of successful treatment of Crohn's disease with adult stem cells, and the future looks bright for far more. Embryonic stem cells are still brimming with potential, yet haven't done squat. If they had, nobody would be at the federal trough with their tongue hanging out. Investors, seeing what the possibilities are, would be jumping over each other to get in on the action.
This science stuff is really cool, until it doesn't support the liberal agenda. When it stops doing that, it needs to be ignored or swept under the rug. Adult stem cell research doesn't make a case for reusing the tissue of dead aborted babies to save lives, thus somehow morbidly justifying the reality of dead aborted babies, so Katie Couric isn't trumpeting its cause. Nobody's trotting out those expert scientist celebrities like Nancy Regan or Christopher Reeve (may he rest in peace) to plead for it. We just hear about how ignorant, uncaring Dubya stopped stem cell research, and how there is no liberal bias in the news. Riiiight. You go Katie!
John put this out here at 8:45 AM
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