The first embryonic stem cell FDA trial just commenced. Supposedly a “watershed moment” for medical technology, I’ll point out that all of the amazing medical treatments they’ve derived with stem cells have been other, more useful types of cells (why more useful? Because the other types of stem cells don’t turn into cancerous masses, and also don’t need to even be screened for rejection, since they don’t get rejected). Sure, enough research can make embryonic stem cells useful too, but adult and placental stem cells can do everything embryonic stem cells can do, more easily, and without controversy. The whole reason embryonic stem cell research receives so much attention is because it can be used as a political hammer against the right.
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