Science is back
Lucky there's a family guy
Mangled by a stroke, one eye drooping badly and the limbs on his left side almost useless, a despondant Peter Griffin shuffles into a stem cell research clinic. Time passes. Peter emerges from the building like a new man. His face no longer has the half-dead look of the stroke victim. All of his limbs work just fine again.
“How long was I in there?” Peter asks a stoic security guard standing at the door.
“About five minutes.”
Peter is stunned. “Why are we not funding this?”
Well, guess what, friends on both sides of the stem cell fence. Funding is back and fundemental ignorance about the science have been cast aside. Beginning just over a week ago, science in general has started to enjoy a rebirth as all the ludicrous restrictions and faith-driven policies begin to crumble. Bring on the progress, it’s been a while.
HOUSTON CHRONICLE – More than a decade after the discovery of human embryonic stem cells, Texas scientists are poised to finally ramp up research involving the cutting-edge but controversial science.
With President Barack Obama expected to lift federal restrictions on the field as early as this week, scientists in the Texas Medical Center and around the state have expressed their delight and predicted a long-awaited scientific renaissance will follow.
“Opening up the research is going to have an enormous benefit,” said Bill Brinkley, a Baylor College of Medicine professor of molecular and cellular biology. “After being diminished and pushed to the side for a decade, embryonic stem cell research will become mainstream — most every lab will take advantage of it.”
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:29 pm
It’s about time!
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!
Stop mocking me!
February 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 am
Shame on you flamer for writing about something half assed. The federal ban on EMBRYONIC stem cell research was a ban on federal funds for the creation of new lines. The government is not in the business to fund scientific research which has never shown progress. There are lines available for research, but the libs made it sound like the holy rollers objected purely on religious reasons. While the ethics of creating life just to destroy it is a big reason to stay away, money trumps all. Adult stem cells, umbilical stem cells, and the patients own stem cells have all provided positive results, Embryonic has yet to accomplish more than tumors. The reason such an outcry was made and falsehoods raised over ESC research is that no private funds were made available either due to the lack of positive results. Rather than lobby private funds that they knew they weren’t going to get, researchers instead blamed the feds for not providing funds wholly on religious ideology. Instead of backing a losing proposition, why not fund further research into stem cell therapy that has proven to work?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/09/the_truth_about_stem_cell_rese.html
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:59 am
This is really wonderful to hear. I am so fed up with one religion or another driving the lives of others. I always told my kids in school, we are only limited by our beliefs.
-Charlie