Reply #18: I'm talking about problems now. [View All]

hiley wrote:

For one thing the Bush administrations' complete distain for anything scientific is causing problems every where !

Truly I consider this administration to be an anti-science administration. That doesn't mean I can justifiably blame it for this advance occurring first in Argentina and not here (maybe competent scientists are just not the exclusive domain of the U.S.A. --have you ever considered that?).

hiley wrote:

If he did not "go moral" on the stem cell issue in the first place Americans probably would have already found this little tidbit Already.

I very much doubt it. In any event, even if the administration's policies were delaying the development of an embryonic stem cell equivalent breakthrough, it could not produce a delay, at the present time, of more than 4 years. In this fantasy scenario, you'd still have this adult stem cell breakthrough occurring in Argentina and it would eclipse the hypothetical embryonic stem cell breakthrough in the U.S.A. (which we really have no strong reason to believe would have happened). Basically, an embryonic stem cell breakthrough in regenerating islets of Langerhans' insulin producing activity would be for nothing because the logistics and safety of treatment by one's own adult stem cells will probably be considered to beat the options coming from some foreign embryonic line in the foreseable future.

hiley wrote:

Do you know anyone who has died from the effects of diabetes, do you know anyone who lives with it ?
Come on it is significant ..

Sure, great breakthrough. Where it happened, however, had nothing to do with Bush. Rumor has it also, that he might not have caused the recent tsunami either. Some evil things are not caused by Bush, believe it or not (a disproportionate amount of evil things might be caused by the Bush administration, but not all).