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After Rick Perry's Stem Cell Treatment, Misplaced Enthusiasm?

Posted by timothy on from the plug-and-play-delicious-genes dept.

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."

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  1. Re:God fearing men... by Tharsman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Science has proven there are hundreds of life seeds in a single batch of sperm. If you masturbate you didn't spill an innocent life, you committed genocide!!! :P

  2. Re:God fearing men... by Duradin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Men are genocidal monsters (even if there is a pregnancy there will never* be a 1:1 sperm to baby ratio) and women are serial killers.

    *standard /. disclaimers for pedants who don't understand common usage

  3. Re:God fearing men... by Amouth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember - Jesus died for our sins, if we don't sin his death will have been for nothing.

    --
    '...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'