Quotes about Stem Cell research from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "While in Los Angeles several years ago, I heard Patti Davis, daughter of Ronald Reagan, attack the Bush administration for its opposition to stem cell research. Since people had pointed out to her that she might be articulating excessive hope for stem cells and AD, she insisted that there is no such thing as false hope. While I appreciated Patti's sentiment, I disagree. Creating high expectations and then dashing hope when the great weight of reality crashes down potentially creates more misery and suffering in the long run and is ethically and scientifically questionable."- Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "In 2003, California passed a constitution-modifying proposition called the "Stem Cells and Cures Act" that led to a $3 billion investment of public funds in stem cell research. The use of the word cure juxtaposed with stem cells is, in my view, irresponsible, since the phrase implies that positive outcomes will be had if the public simply invests its tax dollars in basic biological research. Human beings love simple answers for complex problems, and we are a great species because we often innovate and come up with answers." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Leveling perspectives from leaders like Smith are much needed as we push forward in stem cell research. The grandiose promises made by scientists and pronounced at political conventions fuel false hope and set us up for potential disappointment. Alzheimer's disease is a multi-system disorder that affects many brain regions. To recover function in memory, the implanted stem cells would have to form intricate connections with neurons in an older, diseased brain. This does not seem plausible. Nor have scientists explained just how growing new neurons will help us regain old memories." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Austin Smith of Edinburgh, who directs EuroStemCell, a consortium for stem cell research, briefly discussed the ethical implications of current and future research. His closing remarks touched on the responsibility of scientists to tell the truth and not fuel false hope. He challenged the scientists on hand not to exaggerate the prospect for cures, not to underestimate research challenges, and not to trivialize issues of public anxiety with pseudoscience. Directly after that, he took a few questions and my co-author was lucky enough to be called on. He pressed Smith more on the "hype vs." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) |
 "Even in medicine, the very fundamental concept of "life" is controversial, that is, to say difficult to define, as witnessed by the fierce debates over abortion and stem cell research, not to mention end-of-life issues.
It's not just doctors and their procedures that would disappear," Fran pointed out. "It's a whole way of thinking about health and illness."
I nodded. Medical practice is more than a set of procedures and techniques. It is directed by a powerful ideology that guides the way physicians think and act."- Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) |
| "Do I detect a hint that pharmaceutical CEOs might have indicated to you that stem cell research leading to a cure for any chronic illness would not be good for the economy (or for them)?
Stem cell research is already taking place in laboratories around the world. Your ban only hinders U.S. researchers. Are Americans going to have to leave America to be cured of diseases? That does not speak highly of your regard for our citizens. Why not set up manageable, productive guidelines that will place us in the forefront of cure research?" - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) |
 "What is even more absurd about this claim is that stem cell research is in its infancy, and in terms of wrinkles and skin care for humans it is nonexistent (Klein-Becker itself doesn't have even one published study). This is a classic example of how a cosmetics company can take serious science and manipulate it to sell products."- Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.) "Web sites on stem cell research: How many kinds of adult stem cells exist, and in which tissues do they exist? What are the sources of adult stem cells in the body? Are they "leftover" embryonic stem cells, or do they arise in some other way? Why do they remain in an undifferentiated state when all the cells around them have differentiated? Do adult stem cells normally exhibit plasticity, or do they only transdifferentiate when scientists manipulate them experimentally? What are the signals that regulate the proliferation and differentiation of stem cells that demonstrate plasticity?" - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.) |
 "One of the goals of stem cell research is to harvest some of these universal cells, grow them in laboratories, and then use them to undo the damage done by such things as heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many other diseases associated with aging. How do we know that this process has potential? Well, just look at the work that's been done on the heart. Cardiology was one of the specialties most resistant to the potential power of stem cells, and the damaged heart was considered representative of the key organs that could not regenerate themselves."- Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.) "While some may argue that you can't strip away the moral issues from the science of stem cell research for the study of aging, the fact is, that's exactly what we're going to do. Your body naturally already uses its own stem cells to make you stronger, healthier, and more resistant to the conditions that have the potential to slug away at you day after day and year after year (see Figure C. 1). Your stem cells are an incredibly powerful tool—independent of what you believe we should be doing in the laboratories." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.) |
| "Currently, stem cell research offers the primary focus for curing diabetes.
Each day of delay in arriving at this risk/benefit determination affords the pharmaceutical more than enough money to deal with liabilities that occur in the interim. Offsetting the value of human life against another day's profits seems grossly callous if not downright criminal. If you consider the behavior to be criminal, where does the criminality lie? Does it lie with: A manufacturer who produces a dangerous product? A doctor who prescribes a dangerous product?" - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) "I would also question how you can juxtapose your authorization for use of live virus smallpox vaccine against your moral stand against stem cell research. Your authorization to use a live virus of unknown origin in the smallpox vaccine would indicate that you think this action is acceptable. At the same time you maintain that research using non-genetically oriented stem cells to promote cures is immoral and heretical." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) "One Congressman (George Nethercutt, Washington) from the Northwest voted against the bill to allow stem cell research even though his daughter has diabetes. His vote might have been based on religious views, but another thought keeps running through my mind. At a time just prior to his reelection campaign, Congressman Nethercutt had agreed to help a group of diabetics who were pleading for the right to choose their insulin products.2 He even helped, through the Congressional Diabetes Caucus, to get funding for pancreatic transplants for the Medicare Program." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) |
 "Genetically "improved" livestock are feared by some as possibly harmful and decried by others as destructive of animal rights. stem cell research looking for cures for Alzheimer's disease and diabetes, among other diseases, is limited by political pressure from some religious groups. Advances in genetic engineering hold the promise of creating human babies with traits ordered up by parents—and the cloning of humans might make possible the re-creation of geniuses into succeeding generations."- The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
 "Remarkable new advances in stem cell research, proteomics (gene-expressed protein patterns), gene splicing, and drug therapy aimed at genes are already changing the practice of medicine in the twenty-first century. Molecular medicine offers exciting new horizons for altering the course of aging, and an even greater potential benefit might be gleaned by applying genomic information to nutritional anti-aging medicine.
Genetic Control of Aging
Scientists have been deciphering aging codes on genes and have now identified at least eight genes that can influence longevity."- Vincent Giampapa, Ronald Pero, and Marcia Zimmerman, The Anti-Aging Solution: 5 Simple Steps to Looking and Feeling Young (Get the book.) |
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