Re: OT: Post Turtle



On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:37:36 +1000, Clifford Heath
<no@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
nobody, anywhere in the world, with whatever
funding, has found much real use for stem cells.

You should have been around to tell that to tell that to
one of my fathers best mates, who died last year, after
stem cell therapy had turned him back from death's door
and got him out of bed for six months more quality life.

Any good placebo can do that. Stem cell experiments have, so far,
killed more people that they've helped. It's only such a holy grail
for political reasons, not scientific ones.

John


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