Stem cells to be used for breast enhancment

[rumorsofwar.livejournal.com]

Yet another reason to support stem cell research: "A STEM cell therapy offering “natural” breast enlargement is to be made available to British women for the first time..."

I don't know about anyone else, but if I was an embryo, I'd rather end up on a stripper's chest than in a rusty old dumpster behind a fertility clinic.

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[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Biologists.

[rumorsofwar.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I'd love to read more about it. Care to provide some evidence?

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

http://web.archive.org/web/20080201224807/http://www.spinneypress.com.au/178_book_desc.html
http://health.usnews.com/blogs/heart-to-heart/2009/03/04/why-embryonic-stem-cells-are-obsolete.html
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=adult+human+stem+cell+research

[rumorsofwar.livejournal.com]

The first link is cute (I'm assuming you got it from me and it isn't just a happy coincidence). And the second, though insightful, doesn't actually make a case to back up its inflammatory title "Why Embryonic Stem Cells Are Obsolete". It just points out that advances have been made with other types of stem cells (which I never disputed) and that there have been complications involved in some procedures with embryonic stem cells. You know what that means? More research is required. If the scientific community comes to a consensus that embryonic stem cell research is no longer necessary I'll be the first to hop on board.

I have yet to see anything from either you or Pantsu that makes a case for abandoning embryonic stem cell research, though, just a lot of positive press for adult stem cells (which is wonderful) and a few weak statements against the embryonic type that don't come close to making the case for abandoning embryonic stem cell research.

[pantsu.livejournal.com]

Okay dude, seriously. Let's say a certain food tasted really good and was easy to grow but that food is poisonous. Are you going to want to eat it anyway? I guessing not. If embryonic stem cells result in cancer, why continue to advocate its use? Sure, they look good, but if they are causing more health problems than they are solving then I find that perfect reason to opt for adult stem cells, which are already working and do not result in bullshit health problems.

Edit: grammar fail.

[rumorsofwar.livejournal.com]

This hyperbolic and hypothetical point you're trying to make has little, if any, basis in fact.

Honestly, even if I were to humor your argument, ask yourself: how many life-saving medicines have resulted from research in substances that had the potential to kill or injure? Radiation therapy, vaccines, pain killers, and quite a few forms of medication, just to name a few. Hell, go back to the earliest days of medicine when amputation and leeches were used to save people's lives. All of it "poisonous food".

[pantsu.livejournal.com]

Nonsense. No intelligent scientist would dare think for himself.