[wagglebee]

“To start with, people need a fairy tale. Maybe that’s unfair, but they need a story line that’s relatively simple to understand.” Isn’t it time Americans recognize the promise of obtaining medical miracles from embryonic stem cells for the fairy tale it really is?

Not just a fairy tale, but a deadly one.

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[Lexinom]

Sadly, the ears and attention spans of common people has become accustomed to the sound bite. This makes it easy for "stem cell research" to mean "embryonic stem cell research". It makes it hard to explain that one kind of reasearch has results, the other doesn't. It makes it easy to caricature opponents of life-destroying research.

Many FReepers deride the idea of nuance, but this is a case where it is sorely needed.

[bushinohio]

And yet all these people still claim that embryonic stem cells are the only hope for the future. On Fox News it was reported that researchers found a way to get the same type of cells without destroying embryos and predictably there were critics saying it just isn't good enough. I guess it doesn't count unless you destroy a potential human life in the process.

[GovernmentShrinker]

the longer embryonic stem cells are maintained in the laboratory (or, presumably, in the tissues of adult human patients), the more likely they are to convert to malignant cancer cells

Of course, this has also been found to be the case with adult stem cells, but one wouldn't expect to see that mentioned in an anti-embryonic stem cell rant.

[Eva]

Have you read Michael Crichton's new book, NEXT? It deals with the stem cell issue as well as cloning and related issues. I just started it, so I can't tell you much, but I think that it's going to be good.

[Redleg Duke]

Embryonic stem cell research is a justification for abortion.

"We are going to take from you for the greater good!"

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