Embyonic vs Adult Stem Cells

".... embryonic stem cell research has not seen a single successful cure or
even a possible cure as the Family Research Council reports.

With increasing frequency, American citizens and others from around the
globe are experiencing newfound freedom from disease, affliction, and
infirmity. Individuals' lives are forever changed with the strengthened
faith and renewed hope that arise from healed bodies and physical
restoration. These seemingly miraculous cures are the result of adult stem
cell treatments. Yet the debates in the popular media tend to ignore and
obscure the medical breakthroughs made by adult stem cell research-success
that has conspicuously eluded embryonic stem cell treatments.While the
potency and success of adult stem cell treatments are becoming evident,
treatments using embryonic stem cells have not produced any clinical
successes. Rather, embryonic stem cell treatments tend to create tumors in
numerous animal studies. The public should ponder these issues and ask why
the media do not cover such results. In a world with limited funds for
research, why are we arguing about unproven and often dangerous embryonic
stem cell treatments when treatments using adult stem cells are today
producing real results for real patients?"

rg...

You information is incorrect, but that is to be expected from an
organization such as the Family Research Council.

Lee K...

Well, post your "correct" information. Show us where embryonic stem cells
have ever been transplanted to any beneficial effect anywhere in the world.

Lee K...

By the sounds of it it is YOU who is relying on faith that someone,
somewhere will come to the rescue. No science to back you up, just faith.

rg...

Sorry. I don't believe in faith.

I do believe in science though.

The only research the FRC does is how to discredit anything that they oppose
on religious grounds.

Jean Smith...

All the stem cell lines blessed by the government were
contaminated as I recall.

Harry Thompson...

Lee, Earl, there is hope for you in Poland.

Hap

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KEEP DARWIN'S 'LIES' OUT OF SCHOOLS: POLISH OFFICIAL

14/10/2006 - Poland's deputy education minister called for the influential
evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin not to be taught in the country's
schools, branding them as lies in comments published on Saturday. "The
theory of evolution is a lie, an error that we have legalised as a common
truth," Miroslaw Orzechowski, the deputy minister in the country's
right-wing coalition government, was quoted as saying. Orzechowski said that
the theory was a feeble idea of an aged non-believer, who had come up with
it perhaps because he was a vegetarian and lacked fire inside him. The
evolution theory of the 19th-century British naturalist holds that existing
animals and plants are the result of natural selection which eliminated
inferior species gradually over time. This conflicts with the creationist
theory that God created all life on the planet in a finite number.
Orzechowski called for a debate on whether Darwin's theory should be taught
in schools. "We should not teach lies, just as we should not teach bad
instead of good, or ugliness instead of beauty," he said.

"We are not going to withdraw Darwin's theory from the school books, but we
should start to discuss it," he added. The deputy minister is a member of a
Catholic far-right political group, the League of Polish Families. The
league's head, Roman Giertych, is education minister in the conservative
coalition government of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Giertych's father
Maciej, who represents the league in the European Parliament, organised a
discussion there last week on Darwinism. He described the theory as not
supported by proof and called for it to be removed from school books. The
far-right joined the government in May when Kaczynski's ruling conservative
Law and Justice party, after months of ineffective minority government,
formed a coalition including LPR and the populist Sambroon party. Roman
Giertych has not spoken out on Darwinism, but the far-right politician's
stance on other issues has stirred protest in Poland since he joined the
government. A school pupils' association was expected to demonstrate in
front of the education ministry on Saturday to call for his resignation.