Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2007

Josh Fink writes "Time Magazine has a piece about the top 10 scientific discoveries of 2007. '#1. Stem Cell Breakthroughs - In November, Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and molecular biologist James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin reported that they had reprogrammed regular skin cells to behave just like embryonic stem cells. The breakthrough may someday allow scientists to create stem cells without destroying embryos -- sidestepping the sticky ethical issues and opposition from the U.S. government that surround embryonic stem-cell research -- but that day is still a ways off. ' Also included in the top 10 editorial are pieces on the top 10 medical breakthroughs, the top 10 man made disasters and the top 10 green 'ideas'."

Comments

Re:Obligatory Global Warming nod

[BlueParrot]

All that GW and the green push accomplish at the government level is to give politicians new ways to spend money ...
Carbon Capping? Basically new embedded tax passed onto consumers so big dirty corporations can still pollute.

Your post is so empty of logic that it is hard to debunk it because your claims are not even self-consistent with one another. Seriously, didn't you just say global warming was a fraud? Yet carbon capping is an excuse for business continuing to pollute? But carbon is not a pollutant? Oh you meant all the OTHER pollution from fossil fuels? Which is why there is no sense in capping their use and it is just a fraud? So restricting fossil fuel use due to carbon emissions is just an excuse to use more fossil fuels, and this is bad because fossil fuels emit pollution? Do you per chance just spew out arbitrary nonsense without thinking about it, thus ending up contradicting yourself? It certainly seems that way.

Re:Top 10 Destroyed Discoveries

[Foobar of Borg]

You're aware that had any other sea creature discovered the clam, it would have been eaten. That's life.

That should read: You're aware that had any other person discovered Colin Smith, he would have gotten his fucking head blown off by a shotgun. That's life.

Seriously, do you just get a big woodie talking like you think you are some sort of "realist"? Does it make you feel like a big man, so you can compensate for the pathetic existence you have?

Re:And on Slashdot

[Cairnarvon]

There are a lot of people with mod points out there who don't seem to have access to dictionaries.