by DemFromCT
There's a stem cell vote this week (more on that to come), but in a letter in Science, three prominent scientists accuse the Family Research Coucil (proponents of adult stem cell research in place of embroyonic stem cells) of deliberately misleading the Senate on the evidence (that's lying in plain English).
Adult Stem Cell Treatments for Diseases?
Opponents of research with embryonic stem (ES) cells often claim that adult stem cells provide treatments for 65 human illnesses. The apparent origin of those claims is a list created by David A. Prentice, an employee of the Family Research Council who advises U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R–KS) and other opponents of ES cell research (1).
Prentice has said, “Adult stem cells have now helped patients with at least 65 different human diseases. It’s real help for real patients” (2). On 4 May, Senator Brownback stated, “I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the listing of 69 different human illnesses being treated by adult and cord blood stem cells” (3).
In fact, adult stem cell treatments fully tested in all required phases of clinical trials and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are available to treat only nine of the conditions on the Prentice list, not 65 [or 72 (4)]. In particular, allogeneic stem cell therapy has proven useful in treating hematological malignancies and in ameliorating the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. Contrary to what Prentice implies, however, most of his cited treatments remain unproven and await clinical validation. Other claims, such as those for Parkinson’s or spinal cord injury, are simply untenable.
The references Prentice cites as the basis for his list include various case reports, a meeting abstract, a newspaper article, and anecdotal testimony before a Congressional committee. A review of those references reveals that Prentice not only misrepresents existing adult stem cell treatments but also frequently distorts the nature and content of the references he cites (5)...
By promoting the falsehood that adult stem cell treatments are already in general use for 65 diseases and injuries, Prentice and those who repeat his claims mislead laypeople and cruelly deceive patients.
Shane Smith, William Neaves, Steven Teitelbaum1 Children’s Neurobiological Solutions Foundation, 1726 Franceschi Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, USA. 2Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 East 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA. 3Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Needless to say, that sort of charge in a staid science publication is extraordinary.
And since this is an open thread, let me mention that Bump in the Beltway has a new home, and that in general the blogs outside of the big ones are worth exploring. Emptypockets does a round-up now and again, and I will tell you that the local CT blogs are doing a marvelous job on the Senate primary (pic is from My Left Nutmeg). What are your favorites and what's on your mind this am?
hmm...
Microphone Captures Bush's Unscripted Comments at G-8
During a lunch with other leaders at the Group of Eight summit on Monday, Bush was caught on a live microphone talking in tough, occasionally profane terms with British Prime Minister Tony Blair about the latest conflict in the Middle East. Bush criticized the position taken by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, and said he would soon send Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the region.
"What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over," Bush says with his mouth full as he buttered a piece of bread.
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