At 03:58 PM 2/19/2009, [email protected] said something that elicited
my response:
So why do researchers and the biotech industry push so hard for public funds
for embryo-destructive research? Because science wants science for science's
sake
And isn't that how we learn and advance.
and, incidentally, because they stand to make huge profits through
potential patents. It's potentially far more lucrative than research
involving adult stem cells.
How so?
You and I need to spread the word about the miracle cures being found
through the use of adult stem cells. They're a far superior alternative to
embryonic stem cells-and nobody is killed in the process of retrieving them.
This is a moot point as those eggs are going to be destroyed.
As science demands unfettered research in the future, we need to be
encouraging ethically challenged reporters, researchers, and politicians to
take a look backwards for a grim reminder of what happens when science is
divorced from morality-euthanasia, gas chambers, and Nazi experiments on
children.
And when morality is divorced from science, you have the Spanish
Inquisition and the Salem Witch Hunts.
Do we really want to start down that terrible road again?
Lord, no.
GA
Dan
