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Report on Olfactory Stem Cell Spinal Cord Repair
Wesley Smith’s “Secondhand Smoke” has a link to and short note on a report in the Journal of Spinal Cord Repair on Carlos Limos’ treatment of patients with their own olfactory mucosa stem cells. Looks legitimate and well documented. It’s late, but will get back to y’all when I’ve read it. In the meantime, let’s … Continue reading
Art Caplan: lies and projection
Best title ever from the editors and pseudoeditors over at the blog.bioethics.net: “President to Stem Cell Community: Drop Dead.” In fact, the President demonstrated the “checks and balances” guaranteed in the Constitution by vetoing a bill that did not allocate new funds and that would have encouraged the unethical destruction of embryos without a clear … Continue reading
More on ‘Science” mag “Pseudoscience”
Note: edited to correct the authors to George and Lee, not George and Cohen. Earlier today, I reported on Michael Fumento’s rebuttal to the letter in Pseudoscience Science magazine that attacked Dr. David Prentice on his support for Adult Stem Cells. Another blogger, LTI, pointed me to an op-ed by two of my favorite ethicists, … Continue reading
Good veto, Mr. President!
As a proud member of organizations that PP calls “Terrorists and Extremists,” it seems fitting that President George Bush’s first veto should concern a life issue: the ethical use of science and in protection of all humans, no matter where or how they originated. After all, his first televised speech as President, in August 2001, … Continue reading
More Lies: Stem Cell “Experts” For Sale?
Michael Fumento, in the National Review Online, writes a rebuttal to the lies that have been spread concerning David Prentice, Ph.D. and the current use of non-embryonic stem cell therapies vs. trick language and out and out lies. There are wonderful resource links and references in the article to prove Dr. Prentice is much more … Continue reading
PP and terrorism
What an absolute joke – the minds aren’t there if Planned Parenthood seriously considers Feminists for Life, Eagle Forum and Americans United for Life among the “Anti-choice” organizations that are listed under the Heading “Terrorists and Extremists.” Okay Feminists for Life (mottos: “Refuse to Choose,” “Question Abortion” and “A Woman Deserves Better”) goes around to … Continue reading
Follow the Money (embryos)
I can’t find any mention of actual funds allocated for the destruction of embryos in HB 810. However, the bill says that the Secretary of Health “shall conduct and support,” and “Human embryonic stem cells shall be eligible for use in any research” that meet the criteria of prior informed consent, being “in excess,” and … Continue reading
Next: funding for creation of embryos
Next will come the call for the purposeful creation of funding for disease-specific embryos. These embryonic humans are not dead. They were chosen and frozen because they looked promising for future attempts to fill the empty arms of their mothers and fathers. SB 810 authorizes the use of tax money to pay to thaw, nurture, … Continue reading
When all else fails, change the language
The blog.bioethics.net links to several online reports about the Bioethics and Politics conference, including LifeEthics and this one from the Scientist, covering one of the paper sessions. ( Covered by LifeEthics last week.) It seems that Missouri legislators would not vote to approve embryonic stem cell research if the bill had the word “embryo” in … Continue reading
Endarkenment and humans
Wesley Smith has had a bit of time to consider and reconsider the way he was called out and singled out at lunch by Alta Chara on Friday, July 14th at the Bioethics and Politics Summer Conference of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. I am unabashedly human-centric and a human species-ist. Any other … Continue reading
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