"Dr. Craig Klugman, a medical ethicist at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, said stem cells appeal to people who are desperate for cures."
no doubt... by the time they are at the stage of jumping countries all straws have hope.
Now as one of those "desperate for a cure", and i well remember my conversation with my kids about the intelligence of going avant garde for a cure, i gotta chime in a bit.
Stem cells have achieved miraculous results for me. And the count is up to 4 others that i know personally that have used the same word miraculous or fountain of youth. BTW, being of modest wealth and going downhill fiscally (still unable to work) i took the stem cells of a pig.
Another quote :
"They are using a new marketing tool to make you think this is something very futuristic and cutting edge," Klugman said. "I would be very skeptical of anything claiming to have stem cells in it because, at least in the United States, there is nothing commercially approved for use with stem cells in it."
It is not hard to see these as "futuristic and cutting edge" .... because they are!
So my rhetorical questions are:
Where is this stuff in mainstream medicine!?! Is it because it will put the cut and dope men out of business?
Dr. Klugman's title is that of a medical ethicist, what is the ethics of withholding stem cell therapies from the American public? What ethics are involved when irradiating, poisoning, and cutting are the preferred treatments? Sounds like business ethics to me.
Added link 3/7/12
Fox: stem-cell-research-allows-for-mismatched-kidney-transplants/
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