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Research the stem cell controversy (embryonic versus non-embryonic stem cells) for YOURSELF!!!

Posted by vikingmother on Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:03:56 AM
 If you are an experienced blogger, you understand what I say below.  You will write a blog---carefully research and insert potent, quality links to reputable journals, sources, and then...you will read responses from people who OBVIOUSLY have either NOT read your links OR who choose to blindly believe what their favorite talk show, politician, college prof has stated. 

They (the one who IGNORES your reference links)  may be a total post modernist as far as how they treat other humans...no rules...but they will hold to some bit of propaganda as if it were a secular "apostle's creed"" THAT CANNOT EVEN BE QUESTIONED.

I BLOGGED ELSEWHERE CONCERNING THE BUSH VETO OF YET ANOTHER EMBRYONIC STEM CELL BILL FROM THE "WE LOVE TO KILL THE  UNBORN" NEW CONGRESS.

I put in links to quality articles, sites, listings in some of these blogs.  I challenged people to search the Net themselves...THE NON EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS ARE THE WINNERS SCIENTIFICALLY (AS WELL AS ETHICALLY). 

The evidence that they (NON EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS) are both the better stem cells (treatments going on TODAY with them and much promising research) and that they do not require an embryo to be destroyed ...is OVERWHELMING.

But the leaders of this DEATH DEALING Congress...rest confident in the laziness (or indoctrination???) of many votors...They somehow KNOW many people will NOT research the stem cell issue for themselves.
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WHICH IS THE BETTER INVESTMENT? ADULT OR EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS? AND WHY IS CALIFORNIA PUTTING $3 Billion ON THE LOSER???

Posted by vikingmother on Friday, June 08, 2007 12:34:35 AM
 http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/05/news/companies/stemcells_outlook/  If you CAREFULLY read this article, the ACTUAL and SIGNIFICANT advances are in adult style / cord blood stem cells. 
EMBRYONIC STEM CELL USAGE IS ETHICALLY DUBIOUS. BUT THE TOP OF THIS ARTICLE SORTA BLURS THE LINE BETWEEN THE TWO DIFFERENT STEM CELLS!!!!

Deep in the article (past maybe the first few paragraphs many skim) they ADMIT embryonic stem cell treatments are WAY WAY behind the TREATMENTS and soon-to-come treatments of ADULT STYLE STEM CELLS/CORD BLOOD CELLS!

California, apparently with $3 billion dollars to spend on the inferior and ethically dubious embryonic cells, does not let logic and scientifice evidence stand in its way.   And no, I don't know WHY California would put so much cash on the ethically dubious and INFERIOR embryonic stem cell technology. 

But those of you who INVEST your own money, and do not have billions to waste---search the Web to find various companies offering treatments TODAY on MANY diseases, conditions. 

And some of these companies state "We use NO EMBRYONIC stem cells!"
Those companies are "backing the winning horse". 
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Why does media mostly IGNORE GREAT advances in Stem Cell research????

Posted by vikingmother on Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:56:23 PM
 This short post is to - once again - post this link with a LIST of very RECENT adult style stem cell treatments, research, further prognosis, etc.
http://stemcellresearch.org/alternatives/111newreasons.html

S.B. 5 just passed in I think the House of Reps this week. Will the main media (major TV, CNN, NY Times, etc) mention that...Pres. Bush will likely veto this bill?  Probably loud & long.  The bill asks for research done on embryos - regardless of the embryo's age. Possibly??? a back door way of getting ahold of fresh embryos???

(It also mandates adult style stem cell research, but what's the point. Adult stem cell research is already going on---with many successes.)

Here might be the Machiavellian moment.  Maybe.  iS THE IDEA TO PORTRAY Pres. Bush, others wary about chopping up embryos for research as anti-progress?  Will we have tragic news stories of persons who could have been cured by stem cell research?  So that those voting against S.B. 5 look like backwood fanatics who could care less about medical progress?

But what if news outlets want to be fair and scientifically accurate?.  If so...will they also mention that...embryonic stem cell research is both ethically dubious to many AND is WAY BEHIND ADULT STYLE STEM CELL RESEARCH, ONGOING TREATMENTS, AND FUTURE PROGNOSIS??? If you peruse the list above (and check out some of the original stories at their original sites) you will find AMAZING work being done in the non-embryonic stem cell research work.

ps If you have a loved one with heart disease, kidney problems, serious spinal injuries (to name a few POSSIBLE candidates for treatment by adult style stem cells) well, maybe check the list ABOVE..  There might be current or soon-available treatments!!!

UPDATE TO THIS POST  -  THE NY TIMES TODAY JUNE 7, 2007 POSTED A STEM CELL STORY...THE COMING TREND IS TO GET THE PATIENT'S OWN CELLS TO REGENERATE....ETC. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/science/07cell.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Good for the NY Times in putting this article out.  No embryos had to be destroyed in this promising research!
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HEART Stem Cell Hope!!!

Posted by vikingmother on Monday, June 04, 2007 8:43:00 PM
 In one of my regular searches for new stem cell advances, I came upon this ABC news article dated May 22, 2007. This article offers hope if this new line of research pans out as expected!!!

My AOL web mail page did NOT include this story
...one would think heart disease a rare thing.
(Heart disease is either the number one or number two killer...I forget.)


And note - they say in the article that they've found stem cells in the heart. So possibly they could use hormones to cultivate a bit of tissue from the patient to grow his/her OWN perfectly matched replacement parts
...Probably no donor rejection issues with one's own tissue
...And no embryo need die.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1929343.htm
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Polish man SLEPT thru Solidarity!

Posted by vikingmother on Monday, June 04, 2007 12:03:49 PM
 Today (Monday June 4) AOL and other outlets like the BBC picked up this story of a Polish man, cared for mostly at home by his wife, who came out of a 19 year coma.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6715313.stm

He is excited to see that Poland is brighter and more prosperous after Communism's fall.

Yes the doctors thot he'd die soon....after his accident.

Whether or not he woke up, his wife is to be commended.  She took her wedding vows to the ultimate limit.  She cared for him, including turning him every hour to avoid bedsores. 

What we FORGET is that we are TRANSFORMED by our daily choices. Her daily choice to lovingly care for her then severely disabled husband has made her a great example of a strong, good woman.

SHE DESERVES MUCH COMMENDATION--whether or not her husband had awakened.
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(i only wish the parents of Terri Schiavo could have been allowed to care for their daughter till---her natural end, whatever that would have been.  We know LITTLE about the comatose state. Possibly the person in that state senses some things, including love and
(in the case of Schiavo's philandering husband) eventually CONTEMPT.)

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