Comments on: Study Could Change The Stem Cell Debate

Researchers Say Amniotic Fluid Offer Possibilities Of Research Without Use Of Embryos

[wondering_2]

Two good comments ajapiece and Hermit22.
I'm curious as to where they think they are going to get such amounts of amniotic fluids... will it be made mandatory of ALL expectant mothers to donate a certain amount of their amniotic fluid via governmental order signed into law similar to the random trial testing of synthetic (fake) blood product is by paramedics. As I recall during my own pregnancies, when a persons "water breaks" it's gone.. everywhere! lol I can hear it now..."Yes mama, we will supply you with our all new high tech diapers. Please wear them everyday until the amniotic fluids harvesting/donation date arrives. Thank you, and if you have any further question, please feel free to contact us."
fake blood product: http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,62955,00.html

[alphaa10-2009]

Some have posted disdain for the concept of ethical values in science, as though the product of "atavistic, Luddite dingbats" or "narrow-minded legislators and government officials".

How interesting these posters should disagree with scientists, themselves, on the essential importance of ethics in science. Clearly, our posters do not grasp science research as a human activity governed by ethics. Yet, the same posters would be the first to champion ethics in medical experimentation, in scrupulous observance of their own moral principles.

And they miss the point about science, itself. A "science" as mere technique is not science, apart from of the context and meaning which makes it truly knowledge. Just as data is not knowledge, so the Latin term "scientia" means more than technique, but knowledge in the fullest context-- even of responsibility.

Oppenheimer and others in the Manhattan Project wrestled with ethical questions the rest of their lives, even as they collectively pushed the button to further victory over Japan. Their non-scientist counterparts, anong them Gen. Leslie Grove, were not burdened with the same doubts. This lack of concern does not impugn the humanity of generals and politicians, perhaps, but it clearly demonstrates ethics is a species of concern of wrenching import to scientists

[frankly6]

I hope this sends the extremist wackos who were fighting this technology back into the margins where they belong.

[frankly6]

The stem cells that were used were to be thrown away anyway. Opposition to this is largely based on histaria and manipulative lies. I'd rather see them help reduce suffering than thrown in the trash.

[linfinster]

I Don't support stem cell research if it destroys embryos. I sure am glad they may have found an alternative.
I question, though, if they know if the grown stem cells can be scaned for future flaw outcomes. If you think about it, there are many reasons people die from flawed genes, how does this play into growing stem cells and implanting them to supposedly "correct" a wacked out system. Maybe that stem cell will be just as wacked out?

[emtak1]

Yeay! Thanks God if this is true : )

I lost a 15 year old daughter to leukemia three years ago and if stem cell research had been done years earlier, it is quite possible she would be sitting next to me right now. I really hope that they find a cure for all of the kids that have to ask mom and dad if they will live another day. That was one of my daughter questions before she passed away

[carlosestu]

Thanks God science and scientists are destroying the barriers created by narrow minded legislators and government officials. All they can accomplish is to slow down its progress to great loss to humanity.

[carlosestu]

No laws in the world will be able stop the advance of science. The comunists tried and failed. If it can be done it will be done.

[bobgee_1999]

Of course it won't end the debate. Atavistic, anti-intellectual Luddite dingbats have never let factual information get in the way of their bigotry before, why would they start now? Progress is scary--ooooooooooooooooooooooooh! But it's nice to see science bending over backward to accomodate these cretins who want to handicap the rest of us with their superstitious nonsense.