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After Rick Perry's Stem Cell Treatment, Misplaced Enthusiasm?
oxide7 writes "Presidential candidate Rick Perry underwent a controversial stem-cell treatment this past month, prompting some doctors to fear the high-profile event would send the wrong signal to desperate patients. 'As a highly influential person of power, Perry's actions have the unfortunate potential to push desperate patients into the clinics of quacks,' Dr. George Q. Daley said."
Don't use Stem Cells. Mr. Perry - please explain yourself.
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So now a person's personal heath care decisions are game for criticism and would count against them for political consideration?
What's next?
"Candidate's love of tuna + mac-n-cheese is extreme and wildly outside the mainstream..."
Seriously - when did we get to a point where there is only one right way to think, talk, and act?
Sad - very few people would even *know* about this if they were trying to use it as some type hit piece..
If Dr. George Q. Daley would keep his f*cking mouth shut, maybe people wouldn't be *aware* of this.
Jackassery all around.
/me sips his coffee and ponders a new sig...
...bastard.
A candidate who has prayer rallies as part of his campaign is into quackery? Gee, who possibly could have seen this coming.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Well, he isn't being too much of a hypocrite. Rick Perry earlier said he was against embryonic stem cell research http://www.chron.com/news/article/Perry-speaks-out-against-abortion-stem-cell-1498123.php So instead he's using his own stem cells in a poorly studied and as yet not very well understood process. He could have been a real hypocrite and done something with embryonic stem cells. But nope, he's pushed for the screwing over of science and medicine and he's going to stick with it. Of course, there's the secondary problem that even reliable, well-studied adult stem cell research is based to a large extent on information we got from studying embryonic stem cells. So even if this does work he will be benefiting from the research he despises. So I guess there is a small bit of hypocrisy but it isn't nearly as bad as it could have been.
Rick Perry, like almost all other sick people, needs to do one thing FIRST and FOREMOST. Namely: FIX YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM!
I will absolutely guarantee his spine and nervous system is replete with subluxations and blockages which are causing all his problems. No, BigPharma will hear none of this. Go for their expensive ~drugs~ and ~therapies~ that prolong the suffering but have cured NOTHING.
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Yes, Rick Perry is against embryonic stem cell research. Yes, this treatment did NOT use embryonic stem cells.
Please do not say that Republicans or conservatives are against stem cell research. Conservatives are against the destruction of an embryo for the purposes of scientific research. Embryonic stem cell research is still government funded provided that it uses old stem cell lines or adult derived stem cells.
With that said, let's leave the straw-men in the field.
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preface: Rick Perry's public statements have lead me to believe he is a very ill-informed or decietful person with regards to his political views. That is not what this post is about.
Before anyone jumps the gun and goes for the "hippocrite" line, the stem cells used were adult, not embryonic as his party as absurdly become opposed to for poorly informed reasons. Just worth noting.
"clinics of quacks" actually appeared in the summary, and yet NOTHING from "Dr" Bob yet?
For anyone thinking of voting for Mister Perry let me inform you as someone who has met the man and lived in the state he's governed for most my life he is not someone you want in your white house. He's managed to distance himself over the last few years from Bush Jr but that's only political maneuvering they are still part of the same good old boys club and move in the same circles. He's even using the same tactic as bush and trying to get in good with the religious circles to try and get votes. The one time I met and spoke with the met I came away feeling dirty, he's got the feeling of a snake oil salesman.
If God is the creator of life, and the one who decides when your time is up, then isn't tricking your cells into becoming stem cells again defying God's will (or playing God)?
No, I don't have an answer to that, it's just a question. Just wondering where people draw the line between medicine and "playing God", since "God's will/province" is a central concept in the fight against embryonic stem cell research and abortion.
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Name one politician who isn't in a good ol boys club.
The very act of getting elected induces them into the "goodest, oldest" boys club there is: that of the people who rule over us with impunity.
Or are you operating under the illusion that there is one group of politicians who are the good guys and another that are the bad guys? Then why do big corporations contribute to them equally? Why does neither side support any kind of real campaign finance reform? Why do both sides fight so hard to maintain the status quo? Answer: because the status quo is their club.
stem cells have not hurt anyone, & have had positive results (permanent cures), previously unavailable, for many. you call this 'weather'?
Stem cells are people.
Corporations are people.
Therefore, by transitivity, stem cells are corporations.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Mussolini
the remaining part of Perry's brain, leaving Perry with NO brain.
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Thus conservatives does not want an embryo destroyed which is just a few cells.
But with cloning a booger with a few living cell in it can be potential to make a new
individual...thus shall we not destroy any booger or piece of skin ?
I think conservatives have to decide, why an embryo should not be destroyed or when/which few cells == "potential of living babies"
or life.
The pot just called the kettle black!
Is there any evil the Republicans are NOT responsible for? Now they're going to have people running to quack physicians for quack treatments!
I can't wait until we find out which teapublican b@stard flapped his arms and caused the earthquake/tsunami in Japan!
Rick Perry considered a bad role model for poor people.
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When a public figure is caught doing something he was telling other people not to do?
why? because 'i don't want anyone else but me and my buddies getting it instead of you.' or 'all other (insert group like gays or lesbians here) are evil except for me so that's why'. Neither gets people to follow you nor votes.
Honest Baby Killers! Yes, we are and proud of it! Look at Biden who recently said he supports China's One Child Policy even though it would mean he would be without his three siblings (Biden is a first born male for those who don't know) Biden is someone who is honest about his beliefs and more than ever we need honesty. I hope he runs against Obama.
Likewise, trusting someone who claims that injecting stem cells into you can help anything in any way is quite dangerous. At the current time, we know very little about how the damn things actually work. Thanks, largely, to people like Rick Perry. But what did those guys expect, that science would magically continue to progress after all the roadblocks they put in its path? So here we are, with a technique that, had we started studying it 15 years ago when we first started talking about it, may have extended the lives of old people (like many members of Congress,) but Congress shut all that down. And now they're turning to us* with their hands outstretched, expecting salvation. Sorry guys, science doesn't work that way. Even if you put your faith in it.
Of course, from what *I* understand about stem cells, injecting yourself with them all willy-nilly is as likely to lead to cancer as it is to a positive outcome. Or possibly growing an eyeball in the affected area. I bet Rick Perry will come to the taxpayer for some of that awesome government health care that the rest of us can't have, if he's suddenly afflicted with a case of back-eyeballs.
* Well, biologists. I went into computer science so I wouldn't have to deal with squishy biological things.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Can the base that cares about this sort of thing (pro-life, anti-science Christians) could make the distinction?
It's a real golden opportunity. An honest to God politician to make a mess of Perry's campaign. One of his Republican challengers might do it even if the Dems are wishy-washy to do it.
Then again, here we have someone who's dedicated to seeing the poor don't have access to healthcare utilizing the best we've got to offer.
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Those treatments would probably use somatic cell nuclear transfer of modified material. IE they'd take the genetic information out of your cell, fix whatever was wrong with it and create a new embryo out of that. So you can sit back and enjoy the show as righties flip out because it involves cloning and creation of embryos for destruction while lefties will flip out over that it uses genetic engineering and genetically modified organisms.(Because if there's any form of science liberals hate it's genetic engineering. Oh well, -1 for being a troll, right?)
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Liberals are assholes and losers who are determined to drag the rest of the country down with them. Obama is going to lose next year, and no amount of sniping at his opposition is going to prevent it. He has it coming.
Subby, your headline doesn't parse in English. What language was that supposed to be? Question headlines suck as a rule, but this... wow, this is just terrible. Try forming a complete thought next time. Maybe start with basic grammar like: subject, verb, object. What are the teaching in schools these days?
On a site that is supposedly for nerds/geeks who are supposedly people of above average intelligence, i expect the writing to be at least up to the fifth grade level.
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Since I figure people will just find yet another reason to get P.O.'ed about it. (But I'm pretty jaded and cynical)
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