The old "Embryonic Stem Cell Hustle" at work

As detailed in the Times of London amd reported by James Taranto in the WSJ's Best of the Web.

Here's Taranto's excerpt and comments:


Stem-Cell Slant

"'Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able to stop taking insulin injections for the first time, after their bodies started to produce the hormone naturally again,' the Times of London reports. That's the first paragraph. In the eighth and ninth, we learn that this promising field of technology is under threat from 'powerful critics':


'Previous studies have suggested that stem-cell therapies offer huge potential to treat a variety of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and motor neuron disease. A study by British scientists in November also reported that stem-cell injections could repair organ damage in heart attack victims.

But research using the most versatile kind of stem cells--those acquired from human embryos--is currently opposed by powerful critics, including President Bush.'



So that means if Bush had his way, he would've stopped the new diabetic breakthrough? Uh, no, it turns out:

'After stem cells had been harvested from their blood, they then underwent a mild form of chemotherapy to eliminate the white blood cells causing damage to the pancreas. They were then given transfusions of their own stem cells to help rebuild their immune systems.'

So this story has nothing to do with embryonic stem cells. But the Times doesn't tell us that until paragraph No. 16."

This is typical procedure regarding the mis-information supporters use to indoctrinate readers into thinking embryonic stem cell research is the ONLY viable use of stem cells.

In addition, those who oppose it (like George Bush and many conservatives) are evil, wicked dogmatic fools who want innocent people to suffer, and not be cured of their terrible mamadies.

Just one more of many lefty/"progressive" agenda items needing to be fulfilled.......