Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Nature's revenge on Arnie
A stem cell researcher in Calif has a highly promising cure for a form of brain cancer. Seems to work well in mice, but the FDA, as usual, is saving Americans from the horrible danger of being cured:
Well, well. So Scheissenesser's funding of embryonic stem cells is finally bearing fruit, finally poking those pesky Christians in the eye. Scheissenesser must be enjoying the screams!
Oops, not so fast:
The word glamorous tells the whole story.
For Arnie and his fellow Herodians, torturing Christians is glamorous. Saving lives is booooooriiiiiing.
Or more precisely, saving American lives is boring. Saving a handful of Haitian lives is glamorous because it's a totally futile and purposeless activity that consumes resources which might otherwise have helped Americans. ¶ 6:32 AM
Reams of safety data must be amassed to satisfy the FDA. Scientists struggle to navigate all that red tape. Many don’t even try.
Now the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has stepped in – with an $18 million grant financed by state taxpayers, courtesy of 2004’s Proposition 71, which created the state agency.
Well, well. So Scheissenesser's funding of embryonic stem cells is finally bearing fruit, finally poking those pesky Christians in the eye. Scheissenesser must be enjoying the screams!
Oops, not so fast:
For 3 1/2 years, the agency focused on the basic groundwork needed to someday use human embryonic stem cells to replace body parts damaged by injury or disease. Such cures are still far in the future.
Now the institute has a more immediate goal: boosting therapies that are much further along in development and more often rely on less glamorous adult stem cells.
The word glamorous tells the whole story.
For Arnie and his fellow Herodians, torturing Christians is glamorous. Saving lives is booooooriiiiiing.
Or more precisely, saving American lives is boring. Saving a handful of Haitian lives is glamorous because it's a totally futile and purposeless activity that consumes resources which might otherwise have helped Americans. ¶ 6:32 AM
