He is probably doing everything right and performing a useful service. From my cruising the site last night (from a question on Quora) it seems legit. The conditions treated are quite limited, unlike most quack sites.
The problem is that he has a duty to prove himself by doing the required trials. He apparently can't be bothered with that. Sorry, but the rules are in place for a reason. For every legit doctor like we assume he is there are hundreds selling snake oil.
If anything, the Internet makes quackery much easier. Trust me that you do not want to go down that road with me. Since 2008 I have been dealing with that issue every day, 365 per year. You really think that people who can barely understand a VCR can make intelligent decisions regarding something as infinitely more complicated as medicine? The empirical evidence says otherwise.
You have a right to do as you wish to yourself, but not to others. If you wish to offer a medical service, you have a duty to prove it's safe and effective. Deregulation allowed a huge loophole called "supplements" and people are getting scammed at best and injured at worst (especially when the supplements interact with prescriptions because they didn't tell the doctor "because they are natural"). This loophole is being closed too.
Read some history of the quackery before the FDA and the cost in suffering and lives.
Actually, the FDA does regulate medical procedures. This is to prevent quackery. It's especially relevant with invasive procedures that transfer tissue from one area to another. Not all cell types are harmless in all areas of the body.
Stem cell treatments are something to which I pay close attention (for obvious reasons). There is a lot of evidence that mesenchymal stem cells can promote healing, but that hasn't been proven in humans. There was an clinic in Louisiana called TCA that was doing MSC trials but the FDA shut them down because they were also selling the procedure outside of the study and against the filed protocol. This is no different except the clinic in TFA isn't even bothering with doing real scientific clinical trials. Preclinical animal data is great, but mice ain't men. There is still much work needed to find optimal dosing levels and tease out other potential hazards.
I have an LG "dumb" TV and love it. I have a 4-year old laptop hooked to the SVGA port for internet video, controlled from my primary system via tightVNC. Works great and I can use my choice of browser.
because in a free market their money is more expensive to obtain with the requirements of investments in special access in order to obtain their money.
This isn't free market. This is assisting the disabled who could be injured trying to access or, worse, permanently barred from accessing stores and services. In a perfect free market people are nothing but resources to be exploited and the disabled would be discarded like broken machinery. I resist that.
I would counter, as a handicapped person, that there are too few. While there may be empty reserved slots much of the time, the "subscription rate" is for the busy times. I have been to places during holidays and other usually busy times where the reserved spots are all legitimately used.
Then there are times I have returned to my car where some asshole, not content with illegitimately filling a handicap spot, parked in the slot marked for where my access ramp would extend out the side. No matter how many times I activated the hydraulic ramp it wouldn't clear the now-scratched-and -dented side of the asshole's car.
That assumes a level of altruism. I see this as merely cheaper to obtain material rather than trying to reduce waste. Given China's very recent history I am skeptical. I see someone already modded me down above for a rather neutral statement of opinion. I would love to be proved wrong but until then I am skeptical.
Seems to me to be more about capturing cheap resources for cheap products that will themselves end up in a burn or landfill. It's just delaying the inevitable.
The summary is wrong. The article says that the drive "was filled with pirated movies and which, he suspects, contained malware that corrupted his work."
He is embellishing for the media or trying to claim the dog ate his homework (or dingo ate his baby? ).
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The point was about the lowest common denominator.
I am quite capable (or was...) of driving at 100+MPH but most aren't so we have speed limits quite a bit lower.
Try clicking my sig.
No worries.
FYI, here is the state of the art in MSC studies. Granted it's neurological which is my particular focus, but it's still applicable.
He is probably doing everything right and performing a useful service. From my cruising the site last night (from a question on Quora) it seems legit. The conditions treated are quite limited, unlike most quack sites.
The problem is that he has a duty to prove himself by doing the required trials. He apparently can't be bothered with that. Sorry, but the rules are in place for a reason. For every legit doctor like we assume he is there are hundreds selling snake oil.
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If anything, the Internet makes quackery much easier. Trust me that you do not want to go down that road with me. Since 2008 I have been dealing with that issue every day, 365 per year. You really think that people who can barely understand a VCR can make intelligent decisions regarding something as infinitely more complicated as medicine? The empirical evidence says otherwise.
You have a right to do as you wish to yourself, but not to others. If you wish to offer a medical service, you have a duty to prove it's safe and effective. Deregulation allowed a huge loophole called "supplements" and people are getting scammed at best and injured at worst (especially when the supplements interact with prescriptions because they didn't tell the doctor "because they are natural"). This loophole is being closed too.
Read some history of the quackery before the FDA and the cost in suffering and lives.
Actually, the FDA does regulate medical procedures. This is to prevent quackery. It's especially relevant with invasive procedures that transfer tissue from one area to another. Not all cell types are harmless in all areas of the body.
Stem cell treatments are something to which I pay close attention (for obvious reasons). There is a lot of evidence that mesenchymal stem cells can promote healing, but that hasn't been proven in humans. There was an clinic in Louisiana called TCA that was doing MSC trials but the FDA shut them down because they were also selling the procedure outside of the study and against the filed protocol. This is no different except the clinic in TFA isn't even bothering with doing real scientific clinical trials. Preclinical animal data is great, but mice ain't men. There is still much work needed to find optimal dosing levels and tease out other potential hazards.
A certain publishing house is trying to assert copyright over public domain material. (yes it's a link to my blog but typing is very difficult for me so I don't want to repeat myself).
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"With friggin' lasers..."
Fixed that for you.
I have an LG "dumb" TV and love it. I have a 4-year old laptop hooked to the SVGA port for internet video, controlled from my primary system via tightVNC. Works great and I can use my choice of browser.
Thanks! Better yet, look up Neuraltus and the exciting progress made with NP001.
because in a free market their money is more expensive to obtain with the requirements of investments in special access in order to obtain their money.
I would give quite a bit to have the option to walk.
This isn't free market. This is assisting the disabled who could be injured trying to access or, worse, permanently barred from accessing stores and services. In a perfect free market people are nothing but resources to be exploited and the disabled would be discarded like broken machinery. I resist that.
I would counter, as a handicapped person, that there are too few. While there may be empty reserved slots much of the time, the "subscription rate" is for the busy times. I have been to places during holidays and other usually busy times where the reserved spots are all legitimately used.
Then there are times I have returned to my car where some asshole, not content with illegitimately filling a handicap spot, parked in the slot marked for where my access ramp would extend out the side. No matter how many times I activated the hydraulic ramp it wouldn't clear the now-scratched-and -dented side of the asshole's car.
That is the crux of the problem: The solution was (pathetically) poorly implemented.
Spreading the number out over a large area dissipates the heat quite well.
Entropy is always free. The Universe has been doing it without charge for billions of years.
That assumes a level of altruism. I see this as merely cheaper to obtain material rather than trying to reduce waste. Given China's very recent history I am skeptical. I see someone already modded me down above for a rather neutral statement of opinion. I would love to be proved wrong but until then I am skeptical.
Seems to me to be more about capturing cheap resources for cheap products that will themselves end up in a burn or landfill. It's just delaying the inevitable.
The summary is wrong. The article says that the drive "was filled with pirated movies and which, he suspects, contained malware that corrupted his work."
He is embellishing for the media or trying to claim the dog ate his homework (or dingo ate his baby? ).
...and create a new volcano.