Michael Kinsley (Parkinson's sufferer) scolds GOP for putting stem-cell research back 6 years.

[gauguin57]

Great Kinsley column in Time mag.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1688769,00.html

Why Science Can't Save the GOP

"... But any Republicans who think the stem-cell breakthrough gets them off the hook are going to end up very unhappy. This issue will not go away.

"First, even the scientists who achieved the latest success believe strongly that embryonic-stem-cell research should continue. No one knows for sure whether the new method of producing pluripotent cells will pan out or where the next big developments will come from. We are still many thresholds away from anything that can be of practical value to me and others. Scientifically, it makes no sense to abandon any promising avenue just because another has opened up.

"Second, even if this were a true turning point in stem-cell research, people like me are not going to quickly forget those six lost years. I am 56. Last year I had a kind of brain surgery that dramatically reduces the symptoms of Parkinson's. It received government approval only five years ago. Every year that goes by, science opens new doors, and every year, as you get older and your symptoms perhaps get worse, doors get shut. Six years of delay in a field moving as fast as stem-cell research means a lot of people for whom doors may not open until it is time for them to shut. ..."


SO sad when you think that Kinsley and other Parkinson's patients have had to watch embryonic stem-cell research, that could save his very life, slow to a CRAWL because of the Rethuglican PINHEADS (as Kinsley calls them, "the small but intense minority who believe that a clump of a few dozen cells floating in a petri dish has the same human rights as you or I. ") Not to mention their hypocrisy of thinking in-vitro clinics are OK (when thousands of embryos will be discarded every year) and then getting on their high horses about just such a doomed clump of cells, which could help save millions of lives. May they rot in hell for such hypocrisy.

[opihimoimoi]

1. The GOP are TRUELY SICKENING re SCR...What are they afraid of?

Spineless ASSHOLES...So much possibilities and time is awasting due to GOP Ignorance/Hardheadedness/Foolishness.

[walldude]

3. They are afraid of an educated populace.

Who can see through their bullshit. Can you imagine if the average American was as well informed as the average DU'er? They'd be screwed..

[opihimoimoi]

5. Then a way must be found/worked on to remedy this horrid situation of GROSS IGNORANCE

We Need a WAR on IG

[blondeatlast]

2. Excellent. The issue is simple--there are millions of BSC

available RIGHT NOW for the possibility of being researched if we just free up the funding.

Without BSCR, those blastocysts are dumped in the garbage like last night's mac and cheese. There are millions who can benefit from this research (I'm just one). We need to make it happen.

I may just buy this week's Time, thanks for the heads up.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. I watched my dad die from Parkinsons

I wouldn't wish it on anyone, not even a stupid Republican.

But I do wish we could make it possible that anyone who speaks out against stem cell research now would be denied any care in the future that is a result of that research.

Against stem cell research? Don't use it.