Wasting Time With Alex

Well blow me down…

Stem cells, and in particular the donkey talking point that evil anti-technology bible thumping cultists Christians want to ban all stem cell research, has been in the news bigtime with the whole Missouri embryonic stem cell research amendment, better known as Amendment #2, that started a battle between Michael J. Fox and Rush Limbaugh but finally brought to light that this was nothing but an attempt to legalize the practice of cloning, it is again important to point out the facts. First off, the issue isn’t about religious fanatics banning stem cell research like the donkeys keep trying to tell people in order to simply stop them from researching what is really going on, informed people are the bane of the left, but about a rift between those that want to finance embryonic stem cell research with tax dollars - this even though embryonic stem cells have yet to yield any kind of advancement despite ridiculous claims that it would cure everything under the sun and even bring back the dead if you take some of these donkeys at their word - and those that do not. So with that in mind, here is another story about stem cells, and again it is not about embryonic stem cells which has yielded nothing but tumors:

Working in collaboration with experts from the US, the Newcastle scientists succeeded in separating out the stem cells from blood removed from the umbilical cord minutes after birth.

They are then placed in a ‘bioreactor’ - a piece of electrical equipment developed by NASA to mimic the effects of weightlessness. Inside this, the freedom from the force of gravity allows them to multiply more quickly than usual.

The British government has been funding all kinds of stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research. But every success story related to stem cells seems to come from other kinds of stem cells. Have no doubt this is another political issue. The left has thrived on creating the illusion that the right is populated with religious nuts. In the past they directly attacked these religious people on what they referred to as their latent homophobia or bigotry, but since they discovered the majority of Americans don’t believe the same things these progressives believe and in fact were turned off by it, they have looked for other things to demonize and scare people with. The meme that religious fanatics want to prevent scientific progress plays well with a lot of people that do not bother to do enough research and understand that they are being sold a lie. Remember that as you consider how to cast your vote in a week.