NIH Director Ignorant On Stem Cells?
by David Prentice
October 2, 2009
Does the Director of the National Institutes of Health not know the difference between embryonic and adult stem cells? Or is he just biased?
In an interview with the New England Journal of Medicine, Francis Collins talks about the number of “stem cell” clinical trials:
Steinbrook: What will the results of stem-cell research mean for human health?
Collins: My crystal ball is just as cloudy as everyone else’s. However, the developments in understanding stem cells and how they could potentially be brought to bear for a whole host of medical problems are some of the more exciting things that have happened in the last decade. In terms of therapeutics, we are just so early on. The one clinical trial approved by the Food and Drug Administration – for spinal cord injury – is currently on hold.
What?!? The “one clinical trial” Collins refers to is the one embryonic stem cell experiment with patients that is out there. And it is indeed on hold.
But there are at least 2,000 clinical trials for Adult Stem Cells (this search term doesn’t capture them all).
By the way, there are quite a few done on the NIH campus itself.
Remember, it’s the National Institutes of Health…
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Comments
It is all about scientific propaganda to keep the public blinded and ignorant so the scientific community can continue to create and harvest human embryos without any legal or ethical boundries, to get desperate patients to enter dangerous human embryonic stem cell clinical trials and to promote scientific discovery without a balanced view on human dignity or human rights. They have power and money and they want to keep it that way. And the only way to do that is to continue to manipulate the public opinion using scientific propaganda. See this video for information that is never talked about. The dangers of embryonic stem cell research: http://blip.tv/file/2061380
[...] is not the first time Collins has seemed ignorant of adult stem cell successes. But it is still disappointing to see the [...]
By: Davis Granovsky | October 3, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Boy did you hit the nail on the head! The Pediatric Society of New Zealand also recently made equally ridiculous, ignorant or biased comments. My response to that mirrors yours and can just as easily be applied to the NIH Director’s comment – http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/no-proof-of-benefit-to-children/