"ER" said it all!

by metatron 16 Replies latest jw friends

  • metatron
    metatron

    Last night, on "ER", an intern has a dispute with a doctor about a patient's chances
    for survival. The doctor asserts that a cure might be 50 years away.

    The intern says no, maybe 5! He says stem cell research may do it all in as little as
    5 years - Alzheimers, Cancer, Lung disease, you name it.

    Applause! Even if presented as fiction, I'm glad to hear somebody say it. We may be
    witnesses to the greatest medical miracles of all time within a decade - mastery over
    every defect and disease imaginable.

    They're regrowing teeth now:

    www.rense.com/general31/regrow.htm

    They also have discovered that portions of DNA strands may be highly effective
    in overcoming genetic defects - rather than viruses.

    Lipitor may be effective against MS.

    The Age of Miracles! Tell me more about those 'puny' humans, Watchtower!

    metatron

  • Amazing
    Amazing

    As my old friend Dave Haack once said to me about 1970, "You put your faith in your "little" Jehovah and I will place my faith in humans." He predicted that one day I would grow out of my little Jehovah fantasy to discover the human race ... so far, it's Dave 1, Watchtower 0.

    Edited by - Amazing on 8 November 2002 10:8:40

  • nilfun
    nilfun

    Dr. Frank Schowengerdt and Dr. John Moore: two more
    humans who are motivated to end suffering. They are working on
    making ceramic bone for hip replacements. The living bone would actually
    grow into the ceramic bone, making it a part of the living bone:

    Hip Science

    Edited by - nilfun on 8 November 2002 11:5:8

  • Undecided
    Undecided

    This will only benefit the rich, if it ever really works, and only a few doctors will know how it works. Anything that would lower their $$$$ power will be repressed. I have very little confidence in most doctors as you can see.

    Ken P.

  • JeffT
    JeffT

    Undecided, sorry you are dead wrong.

    As more and more of these things become accepted by the medical community the insurance companies are forced to start paying for them. Yes, doctors make money, but life isn't cheap. Lot's of people get to have lives because of the hard work by the medical staff that cured them.

    About fifty years ago my father started doing research on bone marrow transplants. (Which lead to the stem cell research being done now). He ran the transplant program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center for years. When he started out most of the people around him thought he was crazy. A reporter once asked him what was the secret of his success and he said "I'm too stubborn to listen to the people that told me it couldn't be done."

    In the next few years we are going to see some amazing things in the medical world.

  • Jesus Christ
    Jesus Christ

    What I've heard about that I'm following most closely is diabetes research. From what I understand, they take stem cells with your DNA, grow islet cells (the cells that produce insulin, if yours get destroyed then that's how you become diabetic), and then implant them. If they can get that done maybe I can stop taking at least three shots a day. I've been taking shots for twenty years and am tired of it.

  • PurpleV
    PurpleV

    Well, now that the Republicans are in power, I hope we have stem cells with which to do research!

    PurpleV of the Democratic Class

  • Witch Child
    Witch Child

    PurpleV, you crack me up!!!

    ~Witch, a dyed in the wool liberal democrat

  • Jesus Christ
    Jesus Christ

    Don't get me wrong, I'm totally against abortion but working in the lab is just fine to me. I once heard someone say that the lives of productive people that are very well loved that could be saved are worth more than something a scientist creates in the lab to save that person. I just hope the idiots who go on about how stem cell research is evil never have someone close to them die from something that could have been easily prevented with stem cell research.

  • jack2
    jack2

    I've always felt that if this "system of things" were to go on long enough, man would be able to make quite a bit of headway against many diseases.

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