Is talk about Stem Cell research taboo here?

I did (and do) too - and I don't know anymore.

Ken:

I once pointed to a new climate change study. Just pointed to the article. Offered up exactly zero opinion -- even went so far as to say, "Interesting article. I offer no opinion whatsoever."

The result? All hell broke loose. I received an infraction and threatening pm's from a nutjob who'll go nameless.

My recommendation? Steer clear, my friend. I basically stick to sarcasm and the mental equivalent of fart jokes now.

You can, however, pm the link to me as I'd be interested to read the article.

It can (and probably will) go downhill fast and get nuked; but I'm up for trying anyways. Did it happen to be the article on the two scientists winning a nobel prize for reversing adult cells to a fetal stem cell state?

I thought that development was very interesting and could potentially remove a lot of moral issues from the debate. I think that stem cell therapy will become an important part of medical treatments in the future. It's just a matter of when, not if.

Post it. It's science. Science is not politics at the research level - neither is it religion. It's SCIENCE. If we can no longer speak of science because some nutcase want's to go postal about it, we're in a huge amount of trouble deeper than a forum post or two.

BTW - I've heard of this stem cell research and it is fascinating. There are a lot of implications in it that can take us into the realms of the "unspeakable" in this forum - but the science is amazing. If I know Americans - the most major interest in this science will be its cosmetic value:rolleyes:

Can you even imagine a world where centenarians all look like new high school grads? Kinda kewl to think of it. I'd love to look like I did at 30 but be able to keep everything I have learned. But then I've always preferred stilettos to sensible shoes, if ya get my drift.

Oh come on Dan,
What better form of population control is there than Zombie Apocalypse?

If I were King of the World, life span would be dependant on the number of decedents a person has. Someone without children living to 1,000 would have far less impact on the Earth than the average person that had two kids and their kids had 2 kids, etc.

It isn't that we don't have room. It's more a matter of farm-able land and fresh water. I believe both of these can be over-come with technology. It would be more a matter of financial priorities than anything else. If we can pipe oil across Alaska, we can pipe water anywhere we want. It's simply a matter of how much money we're willing to pay.

Only .5% of the water on Earth is potable. We know how to clean the other 99.5%. Again, it's just a matter of how much we're willing to spend to do it.

There's plenty of land. For example, if any one's ever driven from S. Utah to S. California, or through Arizona, Nevada, etc., knows there's long stretches of land with no one living on it. This land is actually very fertile and gets plenty of sunlight. The problem is there isn't any water. But any time we're willing to pay to pipe water to those areas, we can have lots and lots more farmland.

While GMO may be a problem now, it doesn't mean it always will be...Or that there aren't other uses for it other than food. For example, bamboo grows at the rate of up to a foot a day. Take these fast-grow genes and splice it to a redwood tree and have fast growing redwoods for building materials, etc.

I didn't see this thread until after I posted a thread that touched on the same subject. Whoops.

Dennis,
The unnamed did with me before.

Dan,
I'm actually glad to be wrong.

If it won't make your 'wee-wee' hard -

We don't want to hear about it!

I think with the recent developments in stem cell research, the primary reason people were some emotional about it has been circumvented.

Well glad I'm not the only one interested in stem cells.

Matter of fact for the past 7 years I've worked for the leading stem cell research and advocacy group in the world. I've even illustrated a children's book for them to teach people about what are referred to as "adult stem cells". Any of you who aren't aware of the advancements in stem cell research will be flabbergasted at what is going on. This industry is the biggest discovery and advance in medicine in history and will soon dominate the way we treat injuries and illnesses.

The Director of our institute was the first person ever to develop a commercially successful adult stem cell treatment center for cardiovascular disease and he's been training doctors, building new research centers around the world. I kid you not. I get to chat with the top doctors and researchers and patients. The developing stem cell treatments make Star Trek look like a witch doctor from some forest tribe.

I'm not even going to try to post links to what is being done and what I've done but you can find a new children's ebook about it on Amazon. (bet that will get this post nuked).

Anyway, every day more breaking news hits the news wires about these stem cell technologies to the point our staff can barely keep up with them. We were invited to the White House when President Bush was in office as we don't use embryonic stem cells for treatments and for good reason. Let me explain.

Embryonic stem cells are extracted from a human embryo. In the old days it meant destroying the embryo bringing up issues of controversy. Nowadays the embryo isn't destroyed during extraction, however, embryonic stem cells inevitably turn on cancers and tumors. On the other hand there are what are referred to as adult stem cells. These are the stem cells already in your body. Easy to extract and program to fix just about every tissue in the body. Safe and highly effective and the procedures are so easy one day you might do it at home. I have seen in the labs tissues we never thought could be repaired or regenerated being done so. We can regrow spinal cord tissue, optical nerve tissue, lungs, hearts, pancreas, skin, muscle, bone and more! I could cite chapter and verse but it would be so many hyperlinks in this thread it would look like an ebook.

So the bottom line is that foreign countries are racing to corner the market. The FDA and Big Pharma in the U.S. are trying to squash any stem cell research and treatments that don't fit their agendas. Everyone else in the world is telling the FDA and U.S. government to kiss their butts because they know, especially China, that stem cell treatments are going to revolutionize medicine and regenerative medicine from now on.

Finally, I wouldn't put it past our doctors to be able to turn people of any old age back to being 19 years old again. The breakthroughs are that powerful and I bullsnot you not. You wanna know more just PM me and I'd be glad to help.

Jeez Paul. You'd be formidable if you started reading.

From all the replies to this thread, I guess there's no need to post the link to the article. lol