Friday, December 30, 2005

Stem Cell Sell-out

Well, today's Chicago Tribune reveal that the South Korean "breakthroughs" in human cloning were a scam. And there is a human-interest story aligned with it about a local alderman who had even tried to arrange an appointment with the head doctor in the sad attempt to seek a cure for his wife. I think that just underlines the tragedy: all the hype about embryonic stem cells as "the" potential cure-all keeps attention and funding away from the adult stem cell research that has an actual track record of cures.

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