The World's Most Honest Embryonic Scientist

Since mid 2005 I have been a voice in the wilderness---the only voice in America with the chutzpah to say out loud, and in print seven days a week, that embryonic stem cells will not be implanted safely into a human being until 2018, while fighting to the death the American Lie that Adult Stem Cells (ASC) cannot do much of anything.
 

Why “to the death?” Because I seem to be alone in declaring that over 100,000 LIVES (not embryos) can be saved every year, simply by using ASC technology that was described in a scientific paper accepted by the American Heart Association in 2003. Since then many thousands of lives have been saved, and dozens of American clinical trials have proved it and reproved it in the past three years...but not one corrupt or cowardly researcher will come up against the establishment and tell the truth about stem cells in order to save those 100,000 who will die this year and the 100,000 who will die next year, and the 100,000.............................

I have been attacked for that statement, usually by someone with a lot of letters after his name who wants to know who the heck I am to differ with a lot of other guys with a lot of letters after their names, not to mention medical journals and the liberal media....all those liars who have convinced America that embryonic (ESC) cures will come rushing out of the pipeline the day that Bush leaves office will tell you I am the one spreading lies.

But in Great Britain, unlike the good ol' U S of A, ASC and ESC are studied by the same researchers in many cases.  And they ALL know that ASC work and ESC do not.  But until now, not one had the cajones to say what I say all the time, that it will be at least a decade until ESC can be implanted into a human. 

SUDDENLY, I HAVE MORPHED FROM THE WORLD'S MOST AGGRESSIVE EMBRYONIC PESSIMIST TO AN EMBRYONIC OPTIMIST, ALL WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST CHANGE IN MYSELF!

Professor Colin McGuckin is professor of regenerative medicine at Newcastle University, UK. His team was the first to characterise a harvesting and culture strategy to produce embryonic stem cells from umbilical cord blood, and the first to grow an organ from umbilical cord stem cells cultured in vitro. 
 

HERE IS WHAT THE GOOD DOCTOR SAYS:

"For me, the unnecessary row over stem cells has obscured the very real issue that patients are waiting to be treated. Some of those can be, here and now with cord blood. Cord blood has no ethical controversies whatsoever - it's accepted by every major religion on the planet.The best estimates of the embryonic scientists in our own university in Newcastle is that embryonic stem cells may not be able to help people this side of 50 years. That's my lifetime. And that's worrying. We can't wait that long." 
 

I SAY 2018, THIS BLOKE SUGGESTS 2058.  
 

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But do not wait for a McGuckin to surface in America, where the medical mafia "whacks" those who "rat out" the always present medical frauds.  It will be another ten years or so when we may be able to get ASC treatments in America instead of China.  100,000 x 10 is one million unnecessary deaths.
 

GOD BLESS AMERICA.  WHERE IS KATE SMITH WHEN WE REALLY NEED HER? 
 

Don Margolis

March 2008