The Age of Miracles ! - Update

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  • metatron
    metatron

    Over at Yahoo.com Science News, Hungarian scientists
    are now claiming evidence of life on Mars -derived from
    spacecraft photographs. This is one of a number of solid
    claims made by scientists recently in regard to
    extraterrestrial life (like the bacteria in the upper
    atmosphere find)

    And...

    Could stem cells cure paralysis?
    See Wall Street Journal July 25, 2001 pg A3
    Dramatic video footage was presented to government
    officials showing mice regaining motion in their
    hindquarters using human stem cells to repair damage
    to their spinal cords!

    This is important to me since I had a close friend
    confined to a wheelchair because of severing his spinal
    cord in an accident. He passed away some years ago,
    I still miss him.

    The age of miracles has begun!
    Wouldn't it be wonderful if science actually delivers
    on the empty promises made by the Watchtower?

    metatron

  • Moxy
    Moxy
    Scientists at an international conference in Philadelphia say they believe a vaccine against the HIV is now feasible.

    ...

    David Baltimore, one of the conference organisers, told the BBC he was "optimistic, in a way that I wasn't a couple of years ago" that vaccines being tested now "will be able to provide a level of immunity and that will make a difference, both in the United States and abroad".

    from http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1527000/1527826.stm

  • bboyneko
    bboyneko

    There is a lot of money in aids treatment drugs. Thats a big reason not more research is being done to stamp out the disease. Watch the movie AND THE BAND PLAYED ON about the early days of the AIDS discovery to se the mentality of scientists and cotors in the field (arrogant, competetive)

  • julien
    julien
    The age of miracles has begun!
    Wouldn't it be wonderful if science actually delivers
    on the empty promises made by the Watchtower?

    You should say the age of miracles CONTINUES..
    Science has been making our lives incalculably better for decades..
    eradication of polio, smallpox, etc
    antibiotics and other medicine
    electricity
    automobile
    telephone
    computers
    environmental awareness

  • julien
    julien
    There is a lot of money in aids treatment drugs. Thats a big reason not more research is being done to stamp out the disease.

    I don't buy this .. the first company that developed a successful drug would immediately gain the entire market. That is surely enough motive for private research.
    Note that the your argument would also apply to all major diseases for which there is treatment but no cure.

  • joelbear
    joelbear

    I agree with Julien,

    The age of miracles began much earlier in the century, around 1914.

    Life has improved dramatically since then.

  • bboyneko
    bboyneko
    Note that the your argument would also apply to all major diseases for which there is treatment but no cure.

    Note the recent events ina frica, the major manufacturers of aids cocktails would not allow some nations in africa to use generic brand of their cocktails..they care more about money then helping people.

    -Dan

  • funkyderek
    funkyderek
    Note the recent events ina frica, the major manufacturers of aids cocktails would not allow some nations in africa to use generic brand of their cocktails..they care more about money then helping people.

    If they don't get the money they won't be able to afford to do research, and there'll be no new drugs to help people

    --
    Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit attrocities - Voltaire

  • julien
    julien
    the major manufacturers of aids cocktails would not allow some nations in africa to use generic brand of their cocktails..they care more about money then helping people.

    Obviously the purpose these businesses is to make money, that is not in question. I am not familiar with this story, how can a company prevent a country from doing something?

  • metatron
    metatron

    Over the long haul, you're correct, of course.

    What I'm applauding here is the sudden progress on relieving
    forms of human suffering that have existed since the dawn of
    civilization. In addition, progress often comes in bursts
    - with pauses in between. Simple sanitation and antibiotics
    made a big difference - now we can foresee regrown organs,
    the conquest of aging, and the elimination of all genetic
    disease.

    I remember a quote from the Lancet complaining about the lack
    of progress in cancer research and how animal testing wasn't
    pointing the way to a cure.

    The quote was from 1920.

    Wonderful things are occuring!

    metatron

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