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Unlike adult stem-cell reasearch which has proven effective in repairing and regenerating damaged muscle tissue and combating disease, embryonic stem-cell research has proven to be nothing more than junk science.

Embryonic stem-cell reasearchers are usually merely biologists who want to get paid to push perti dishes around the lab, cut up a human embryo, and sell it for parts like a stolen Toyota at a chop shop.

What great advances are we to expect from experimentation on human embryos-as opposed to adult stem-cells which have already produced cures?

Back in 2001 Parkinsons Disease sufferers volunteered to have fetal brain tissue injected into them. Not only did it have NO positive effects whatsoever, but about 15 percent of the patients had nightmarish side effects. The unfortunate patients "writhe and twist, jerk their heads. fling their arms about." And the worst thing was, the scientists couldn't turn it off.

Adult stem-cells have helped treat numerous illnesses successfully yet all that gets focused on is embryonic stem cell research which hasn't and will NEVER cure a single disease. It is as if electricity had already been discovered for thirty years and some schmuck is still trying to get someone to fund their research on candles.

Let's focus on what is really going to help save lives and throw the junk science out the window.

Problems With Embryonic Stem Cells
Dr. Peter Andrews of the University of Sheffield, England said, “Simply keeping human embryonic stem cells alive can be a challenge.�1 Says Doug Melton, Harvard University researcher, “In my view (human embryonic stem cells) would degrade with time.� 2

Human embryonic stem cells have never been used successfully in clinical trials, have a lacklustre success in combating animal models of disease, and carry significant risks, including immune rejection and tumour formation.3

“Transplantation of human embryo stem cells into human recipients may result in… tumours.� 4

Speaking about embryonic stem cells, Glenn McGee, a University of Pennsylvania bioethicist told M.I.T.s Technology Review, “The potential that they would explode into a cancerous mass after stem cell transplant might turn out to be a Pandora's Box of stem cell research.� In one instance, fetal tissue derived from early fetuses was inserted into an individual's brain resulting in no visible neurons, but instead producing numerous non-brain tissues in the patient's brain.5

In the most extensive controlled study of fetal brain tissue transplantation for Parkinson's disease, the transplant showed little or no benefit for most patients. Fetal brain tissue was transplanted into the brains of patients to regenerate or replace the cells missing or damaged by Parkinson's disease, the theory being, that these young cells would take over production of the missing brain chemical dopamine. However, the results were horrific. In 15% of the patients, the transplanted fetal cells went out of control and produced irreversible and devastating changes in the patients' brains, resulting in muscle spasm, sucking movements and writhing, which could not be controlled by any medicine.6

Even if a specific tissue is successfully produced from embryonic stem cells and nuclear transfer cloning, therapeutic use of this tissue may cause abnormalities in the person receiving the tissue graft.7

Dino, as much as I agree with your/Anne Coulters points.

You should give credit where credit is due.

Dino,

Thanks for sharing the info. A link to the article would be nice to put it in context.

Thanks again,
Matt