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Tuesday, August 24, 2004

On Stem Cells: Gina Kolata of The New York Times has an excellent review of the state of the science, and at the Weekly Standard Eric Cohen examines the politics of it.

My humble take is here, at Tech Central Station.

UPDATE: Michael Fumento says that Gina Kolata is wrong about adult stem cells:

How incredible that Gina Kolata would write of adult stem cells that, "There are no ethical issues in studying these cells, but the problem is in putting them to work to treat diseases. So far, no one has succeeded. ("Stem Cells: Hope and Setbacks", August 26.) In fact, the first success with marrow stem cell transplants was almost 50 years ago. Today almost 80 diseases can be treated or outright cured with these cells that are found not just in adults, as she wrote, but in umbilical cords. (See: this.) Insofar as Ms. Kolata is one of the nation's top science reporters, it stretches the imagination to think this is anything but yet another media effort to try to raise the perceived value of embryonic stem cells, which have yet to treat a single human disease, by ignoring the true value of the alternatives.

UPDATE II: The link was broken above. It's fixed now. And please read intro to first update "Michael Fumento wishes reminds us..."

posted by Sydney on 8/24/2004 10:14:00 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, August 24, 2004

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