2006-11-12 10:37:29 · 25 answers · asked by clyde 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
stem cell research is good, per se, but it is unfortunate that sensationalism has turned the debate so that people think that it is some automatic holy grail that cures all diseases
2006-11-12 10:40:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why are people so ignorant as to let a good and valid opportunity to cure disease and injury with NO HARM TO HUMAN LIFE slip out from between their fingers. Freaking amazing.
Crawl back into your medieval cave and the rest of us will tell you when it is safe to come out. Just because some stem cells have an embryonic form, every dimwit with an opinion understands that scientists are killing babies to get them. Freakin' amazing.
The two categories of stem cells include embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells and possibly a third, cord-blood-derived embryonic-like stem cells (CBEs). In a blastocyst of a developing embryo, stem cells differentiate into all of the specialised embryonic tissues. In adult organisms, stem cells and progenitor cells act as a repair system for the body, replenishing specialized cells. As stem cells can be readily grown and transformed into specialized tissues such as muscles or nerves through cell culture, their use in medical therapies has been proposed.
2006-11-12 10:46:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
. Stem cell research might possibly lead to treatments for many disease which are sources of major inconvenience for those who have them. How advocates of stem cell research can take the position that the inconvenience of those diseases outweighs the fact that human life must be destroyed to treat them is hard to understand. We should not accept the destruction of human life in the advancement of scientific knowledge. And the people who advocate stem cell research tend to be those who want to save the whales. I'm all for protecting whales populations mind you, but the cry "Save the whales, kill the babies!" is a bit hard to accept.
. Now mind you, the embryos destroyed in stem cell research were destined to be destroyed, anyway. That's the nature of the in vitro fertilization baby making business. When I first learned how that business worked, I was opposed to it, long before stem cell research came along. So, if you want to protect human embryos from destruction, the proper practice to attack is in vitro fertilization. If that is shut down, there will be no supply of human embryos for stem cell research.
. Parkinson's disease is an inconvenience. My father had it, and I suspect that I will get it. But, I can live with the inconvenience better than I can live with someone killing babies on my behalf.
2006-11-12 15:28:33 · answer #3 · answered by PoppaJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess for the same reason we were so blind as to think that the world was flat and that proteins carried the genetic code. However, we will never know for certain without "resurch".
2006-11-12 10:44:13 · answer #4 · answered by gauger_1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why do you think they are blind?
My guess is that the experts in genetics know ever so much more than you.
Stem cell research will not cure everything, but it is a promising solution to many problems.
Growing you a new kidney could free result in your having a transplant that your body would not reject, freeing you from dialysis machines forever. How is that not a good thing?
Your question is not phrased in the terms of someone who really wants to discover the truth, but rather wants someone to discover HIS truth, even if it does not exist.
When are you going to stop beating your wife?
Why are you so blinmd as to not see things MY way?
C'mon.
Stop that.
2006-11-12 10:43:43 · answer #5 · answered by Richard E 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People aren't blind... they've been LIED to. Proponents of Embryonic Stem Cell research have ZERO treatments to point to to validate their request for millions of tax dollars in funding, so they try to blur the line between Embryonic Stem Cell research and Adult Stem Cell research. Adult Stem Cell research is very promising, is worth of funding, and has RECEIVED lots of funding as a result.
Embryonic stem cell research is being pushed via propaganda and misinformation by people who want their turn sucking at the government teat, and also by people whose agenda involves dehumanizing unborn children (like Planned Parenthood, the #1 provider of abortions in America, and recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars of tax money to boot!).
If you want more of the truth, go here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkxjiNQp4_xY3_o0SC0mbRvsy6IX?qid=20061111211835AAUzUOk
Bottom line, this whole debate is pointless since only one form of stem cell research is worthy of research (adult stem cells) and nobody on either side opposes it! It's ulterior motives that are confusing the issue.
Regards,
Rob
2006-11-12 11:09:01 · answer #6 · answered by Rob VH 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's only so much one can do before we understand how the brain works with modern chemistry. So what's the alternative? we can't experiment on animals because it's cruel, and humans arent' lining up to take their places. Stem cell research is useful. If you think it's worthless I hope you have a few aces up your sleeve that chemists missed.
2006-11-12 10:40:59 · answer #7 · answered by shiara_blade 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because stem cell research may one day cure blindness.
2006-11-12 10:38:58 · answer #8 · answered by Trip S 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I suppose I'm so "blind" because I see all the potential it has to cure diseases that afflict thousands of people. I also see that on a personal level it could cure the disease that killed my brother and therefore spare someone else what I went through. There's no downside to it, people can be helped, nothing trumps that.
2006-11-12 10:40:36 · answer #9 · answered by J 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
research... I have no idea what resurch is.
It's a very viable and intriguing path in medicine... that's why. It's provided some promising results in current studies.
2006-11-12 10:39:23 · answer #10 · answered by misskate12001 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋