Selling Cells
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Unless, of course, you are able to develop a celebrity driven media campaign and bullshit your way into some government grant money. Then wrong and right no longer matter.
Such is the case with embryonic stem cell research.
After a barrage of well funded, impassioned pleas by the likes of Parkinson sufferer Michael J Fox and a host of liberal minded government politico’s joined by downtrodden victims of just about every malady from Alzheimer’s to Zoster Virus, Americans began to become immune to the fact that in order for embryonic stem cells to save a life, a life must first be destroyed.
Scientists lined up around the Capitol eager to give their testimony of how the only salvation for mankind was to drop the limitations placed on embryonic stem cell testing and to also drop some heavy government funding into their research facility’s coin box. No other cells were suitable, we were told, and any restrictions would only prove to bring life as we know it to a screeching halt under the yoke of a myriad of maladies.
As one of his first orders of presidential business Barack Obama ended the restrictions imposed by his predecessor and stood at the helm of the "SS Infanticide" shouting full steam ahead. It was a dark day indeed for anyone with even a hint of a conscience.
Those of us who opposed this revisiting to the days of Josef Mengele were called callous obstructionists and socially unregenerate by the scientific elite. The smokescreen of scientific promises became so thick that many lost sight of just how truly hideous the idea of harvesting human babies truly is. Having thrown away our moral compass, it would only have been a short time before businesses were set up for the sole purpose of employing brood mare mommies to develop these tiny humans to just the right size for picking.
You may say “Oh Big Frick! That’s an exaggeration”. But is it?
In my lifetime we have gone from not showing Elvis Presley from the waist down on television because he swayed his hips to the prime time broadcast of the VMA Awards starring a transvestite man named Lady Gaga wearing clothing made of raw meat, singing a love song while screwing a goat and having his overinflated fake tits whistling Dixie. We are a nation that has gone from watching New York’s Bishop Sheen give his weekly sermon to watching some drunken, fat New Jersey girl named Snookie puke on her shoes and fart in a hot tub.
Do you really think there are any limits to our depravity?
But because, at least at one time, we had a president that understood the important difference between what was wrong and what was trending higher in the polls, the government withheld funding for embryonic stem cell testing and forced science to come up with another way.
They said it couldn’t be done. They were either wrong or lying.
Last week scientist in Boston confirmed that they had indeed developed a way to harness all the same life saving qualities of embryonic stem cells by reprogramming simple human skin cells. These reprogrammed cells will have the same abilities to grow new nerve cells, brain cells, muscle cells, etc. Everything that was promised by the use of embryonic stem cells is now possible without having to first harvest an unborn human baby. Once again proving that sometimes the best thing government can do for the advancement of science is say no.
It also proves once again that Barak Hussein Obama has not gotten it right on any issue.
Maybe being wrong about everything was the CHANGE he was promising.
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Bigfrick.. Nice