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Stem Cells: The Hope and the Hype
The stem cell debate is so politically loaded that it’s tough to tell who’s being straight about the real areas of progress and how breakthroughs can be achieved. TIME sorts it out
By NANCY GIBBS
Time Magazine, July 30, 2006
Aug 18, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Legislation, Issues
Some Scientists See Shift in Stem Cell Hopes
Stem cell research, which scientists say has been slowed by government policy, may yield better drugs before cell therapies are found.
Aug 15, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Human Rights, National, Social Issues, Science
Gore isn’t quite as green as he’s led the world to believe
Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a “carbon-neutral lifestyle.” To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. “Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb,” warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. “We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin.” But if Al Gore is the world’s role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.
Aug 10, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, Social Issues, Science, Environment
Science’s stem-cell scam - Washington Times
July 22, 2006 Washington Times Commentary by Michael Fumento.
“Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) receive tremendous media attention, with oft-repeated claims they have the potential to cure virtually every disease known. Yet there are spoilsports, myself included, who point out ESCs have yet to even make it into a human clinical trial. This is even as alternatives — adult stem cells (ASCs) from numerous places in the body as well as umbilical cord blood and placenta — are curing diseases here and now and have been doing so for decades. And that makes ESC advocates very, very angry.”
Jul 22, 2006
Topic: Family, Living, Health, Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Legislation, Social Issues, Issues, Adoption
Q&A: What is the stem cell controversy all about?
WASHINGTON (BP)—The United States Senate is expected to vote the week of July 17-21 on three bills regarding human embryo research, including a controversial measure that would fund destructive, stem cell experiments.
Jul 11, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Human Rights, Social Issues