>>>> Does anyone have any info to indicate that chronic sinusitus sufferers
>>>> with tissue damage due to repeated surgeries and/or infections may be
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> stem cell research - the religious authorities are blocking it. They
> control a lot of votes including the votes that got GWB in power.
National politics is really OT for this NG. But I'm not going to let
your statement go without trying to set the record straight.
There *are* valid ethical issues surrounding the use of embryos for
scientific research. There has already been at least one case in New
Jersey a few years ago, where a private company wanted to pay poor women
to harvest their embryos for scientific research--fortunately the local
governments intervened. That's why embryonic stem cell research is so
controversial. Medical schools like the Harvard Medical School have set
up actual divisions to explore issues of medical ethics like this one.
These are *not* simple questions, and anyone who (like yourself) makes
glib, easy-sounding proposals is either failing or refusing to deal with
the ethics involved. We've seen enough horrors in the last 100 years
from people who deliberately ignored ethical constraints in the pursuit
of scientific knowledge, fame, or profit, to know what can go wrong with
that.

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