Quackery or Well-Documented Fact? – Blogs, Life Issues | CitizenLink

Quackery or Well-Documented Fact? – Blogs, Life Issues | CitizenLink: "What is closer to quackery in your mind? Selling patients a bill of goods when it comes to the promise and potential of embryonic stem cell research or doing what Perry has undertaken when he puts his beliefs into action, using an approach that has paid off for thousands of patients?

Don’t forget, embryonic stem cell research has yet to cure a single patient anywhere in the world, at any point in its ten-plus year history. Yet proponents of embryonic stem cell research continue to push for more federal and state funding – i.e., more of your tax dollars to fund research that not only has yet to prove decent chance at a cure, but that also has serious moral and ethical problems.

Contrast that with adult stem cells – the kind that Perry had injected to treat his back – they do not require the destruction of a young human life, can be supplied directly from the person who needs the treatment, and that can be taken from any number of spots in an adult (or non-embryonic waste) body. This decision lines up with the evidence from thousands of patients – suffering from dozens of different diseases and conditions – that have been successfully treated in recent years"