The politicization of research funding is infuriating. While the left uses the media to complain about conservatives, it is they who put the culture of death over treating children.
Ping and pass on
BTTT
I don't support any diabetes organization that advocates Type IIs like eating lots of whole grains. If I did that my blood sugar would be up above 170 ALL THE TIME and I'd die.
Likewise, the guys who tell me that Type I can be cured with stem cells (adult or embryonic) are skirting around the discovery that the Islets of Langerhans get wiped out by your own immune system in a very large percentage of cases. All that will happen is that the new Islets will get wiped out!
Type II does not appear to have any possible connection to stem cell activity.
It's truly shameful that this organization is wasting its money on useless quackery.
Back in the '80s, they ran a full-page ad in the NY Times soliciting donations. In the statistics about diabetes cited, numbers from Type 2 (adult onset) diabetes were used without EVER saying that there was a difference between the juvenile type and adult type--especially in numbers of patients.
I called them, left a message and this world-weary guy called me back to tell me that both diseases suffered from similar complications, so my point was not relevant. BS.
The ad was misleading and, I think, meant to be that way. They are liars and frauds over there.
Can you hear the music?... "With a name like cannibalism, it has to be good."
True, but WHY? WHY in this case?
I can understand WHY people think Michael Schiavo should be allowed to "eliminate" his inconvient wife; I can understand WHY people think abortion should be cheap, legal, and plentiful, I can really understand those who want the right to die, the right to chose, and the right to chose who should die. I don't think they are in the right, but I can easily understand their motives. Selfishness sums it up pretty well.
But I DO NOT UNDERSTAND this adult stem cells vs embryonic stem cells stuff. It all makes as much sense as the "feminists" supporting the women abusing Muslims, that is to say, none at all.
It's all a smokescreen to make abortion look more acceptable.
Without cancer, diabetes, or heart diease, such organizations and their officers would be out of their jobs and salaries.
It's no wonder that very little of their money goes to actual research looking for real cures.