Over the past week, there's been something short of pandemonium surrounding the virtual verbal battle between Michael J. Fox and Rush Limbaugh (with side battles including Kurt Warner, Patricia Heaton, Jim Caviezel, and CNN). The most recent verbal vomitting has come from McFly himself - that's Michael J. Fox for those of you who slept through the 80's. During an interview with Abc News, Fox admitted that he has never read the very amendment for which he has been stumping.
Not reading the fine print may explain why Mr. Fox ever considered embodying, "Teen Wolf."
But, I digress. Interestingly, the amendment appears to endorse human cloning and, rather limitedly, permit for research into embryonic stem cells for various diseases, including Mr. Fox's Parkinson's Disease.
I do not want to comment on the passage of an amendment that I have not read either; however, I did want to highlight one extremely important piece of information that I just recently became aware. Did you know that there has not been one diseases linked to being treated/cured by the use of embryonic stem cells (the harvest of which requires the destruction of pre-born humans)?
Before you argue that such lack of proof is due to lack of research, I must remind you that embryonic stem cell research has been permitted in the realm of those still-born fetuses have been reserved for science. That is, there is a limited supply of embryonic stem cells that have been tested, but none (zero, zilch, nada) have resulted in the advance of science and the attrition of disease.
Please look at this list from www.stemcellresearch.org. The use of adult stem cells has resulted in cures or treatments for more than seventy (70) different diseases. For embryonic stem cells? None (nil, zip, non).
Oh, number 48 on the list? Parkinson's Disease.
Mike, I truly am sorry for your affliction; however, read the fine print and endorse something that is proving highly successful!
Remember Dr. Emmett Brown's warnings against messing with the time-space continuum. Great Scott!
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