Stem Cell Lies Continue – but at least it is the falsehood of pretending what positions the ESCR fanatics took now that they have egg on their face with the recent news on stem cells derived from skin cells.

Those who claimed you had to kill young humans to gain access to stem cells are all over themselves trying to claim they were vindicated now that we learn adult stem cells, created from skin cells, will do the job. What a bunch of BS from a group that never grasped the topic in the first place. These fools who tried to leverage their 3rd grade understanding of biology to claim we had to kill people te to get spare parts.

First off, yes embryos are ‘people” because ’embryo’ is a scientific term for a stage of life. The term ‘people’ is a layman’s term for homo sapien sapien – which is a species of life in biology. The human DNA in embryos makes them of the species homo sapien sapien. Challenge any biologist or scientist they will not refute this fact. We no more confuse puppies and babies (as stages of life of an organism) because their DNA signature is now clearly visible to the layman’s eye. But the determinate factor is the DNA in the cells, not the shape or hairiness of the ears.

And DNA tests will show something else about human embryos – they are distinct individual organisms from their parents. We can identify species by their DNA, but we can also differentiate individual organisms within a species with their DNA. These are the same tests used in every court across this land. Science can prove without any doubt an embryo is a human individual in a symbiotic arrangement with its mother. If one compares the embryonic stage of mammals with the early stages of life in Marsupials – where the young leave the womb very early to grow in the pouch – one can see the fallacy of assuming a stage of life equates with a form of life.

The ignorance of many on this topic is legendary and laughable. As are the new attempts to pretend the losers in this debate where never wrong. Check these lame attempts to deny the error of their ways! From the Washington Post:

Others involved in the stem cell debate cautioned that much work remains to be done to prove the value of the new cells. No one yet knows, for example, whether the new cells will be as effective as conventional embryonic stem cells may prove to be against certain diseases, or whether the new cells will even prove safe for use in people.

For those reasons, several said, it would be wrong to halt efforts to loosen the president’s controversial restrictions on federal funding for stem cell research, which prevent federal dollars from going to research on cells from embryos destroyed after Aug. 9, 2001.

These “new cells” are as safe for people as any other human stem cell! The fact is adult stem cell therapies abound and are making major progress in battling diseases today. Embryonic stem cells results are consistent in their production of tumors and cancerous growths. So this is a bunch of BS. No one can show this process will not work, just as they cannot prove ESCR will not work (outside the fact it has not worked to date). Now check out this NY Times piece:

The discovery that skin cells can be reprogrammed to mimic embryonic stem cells is likely to transform the sticky political debate over the science, a debate that has pitted Mr. Bush against two-thirds of the American public including prominent Republicans like Nancy Reagan and has even helped decide some elections.

The findings have put people on both sides of the stem cell divide on nearly equal political footing. Each side can now say it has fruitful research to pursue.

As I said, this is laughable, but predictable from people who coulod probably not pass a High School biology test. The ESCR results are a big fat zero. The Adult Stem Cell results are manifold. What kind of person takes a string of defeats and then looks at a string of successes and declares them equal? A liberal in denial – that’s who. Look, we don’t need to kill young humans to get stem cells, get over it! And finally, we have one more lame attempt by ESCR fanatics at CNN they have not been dealt a serious blow morally, politically and to their credibility:

All sides involved in the controversy over the use of embryonic stem cells in research claimed vindication Tuesday after two teams of researchers reported having reprogrammed human skin cells to act like the stem cells, which have the potential of morphing into other cells and thereby curing disease.

Pathetic. And does CNN still believe John Edwards claim Christopher Reid would walk if he and Kerry were elected? Again, we don’t need to kill young humans as so many claimed was the only way to succeed in getting stem cells. All the major scientists are abondoning the ESCR path. Only those too ignorant to know the science of biology are still pretending this breakthrough means nothing. You know, the fact is some people go through life never understanding what is happening around them. And there is simply no cure for self imposed ignorance.