Bob,
I can't say it any better than a letter written
by a friend of mine to someone else who brought up
the same reference as your comment "the "cream of
the crop" of scientists in Germany supported
Hitler's "scientific" policies of racism and
eugenics."
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Potential life-saver
Mengele? "Fetal" stem cell researchers? Not
promising stem cell research that is supported by
all mainstream science organizations. Surely he
can't compare 150 undifferentiated cells in a
laboratory to children with diabetes, parents with
Parkinson's, brothers with spinal cord injuries,
sisters with multiple sclerosis. Surely he doesn't
equate the inhumanity of Nazi Germany with the
selfless and poorly remunerative careers of
scientists trying to repair disease-ravaged
bodies.
These same frightened voices condemned Galileo,
who said the world was round. These same
uninformed minds forced Alexander Fleming to leave
penicillin on the shelf for 12 years, while
millions died of infection. X-rays, vaccinations
and heart transplants are life-saving therapies
which were once condemned as godless intrusions
into sacred territory.
Truth is the same yesterday, today and
tomorrow, but human understanding of truth does
change. It must change quickly about stem cells if
life-saving therapies it may produce can begin
saving the 2,800 who die each day from
degenerative diseases after prolonged pain and
suffering.
We don't have final answers yet, but, thank
God, science continues to look for them.
Judith L. Haley
(Texas Diabetes Council,
Houston
Nina
"Circumstances determine our lives, but we
shape
our lives by what we make of our
circumstances."
Sir John Wheeler
Bennett, a British historian
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