Stem Cell Research Papers Retracted

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/business/stem-cell-research-papers-are-retracted.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/07/world/asia/academic-scandal-shakes-japan.html?_r=0

There were two papers written about a new method of producing pluripotent stem cells from ordinary cells from the body.  There had been earlier research that had established that skin cells could be used to make stem cells.  But I have not heard anything about what kind of cells were used to supposedly produce stem cells in this new research, other than that they were from mice.  They put various stresses on "regular cells taken from the body" such as chemical treatments and temperature changes to induce them to become pluripotent.  But now these papers have been retracted because some of the data and figures (pictures) were have reportedly been found to be false or falsely labeled. Being a scientist myself, I know that there is a lot bad science published in cheap open access journals, but this stuff was published in the journal Nature, which is a really big deal.  Integrity seems to waning in all areas of life, including in the scientific arena.

And all this makes me wonder.  Should we be fooling around with this stuff?  I mean, if you create a pluripotent stem cell and use it in either experiments or as treatment, is this really any better than sacrificing a human embryo?  I mean, if these cells are really just the same as embryonic stem cells, only they were produced in a different way, then isn't it just as bad to use them for the same purpose?  Killing an innocent human being is wrong.  It doesn't matter how that life came into being.  If the cells that are made by these processes have the potential to grow into a fetus, then isn't it just as wrong to dismember them as if they were just a mass of cells.  Having said this, I realize that not all pluripotent stem cells have the ability to become any type of cell in the body.  But I am just saying that just because embryonic stem cells are replaced by some other type of stem cell, that doesn't necessary mean that it is morally acceptable.

"And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore:  merchandise of ... bodies and souls of men."

Rev 18:11-13 (NKJV)

Climate Change Madness

Junk Science

Man-Caused - (first) Global Cooling, (then) Global Warming, and (now) Climate Change - is an Insidious Hoax Perpetrated by Leftists, Marxists, and Extreme Environmentalists who Desire to Reduce America to Third World Status...

Carbon Dioxide is necessary for the survival plant life, human and animal life on the planet. If (and I don't believe that it is) carbon dioxide is harmful to the planet, a near bankrupt America doesn't have the resources to do anything significant to impact it...We would be wasting more money...

Environmental extremists and Marxists are driving this foolish movement...

There are many scientist who reject the notion of man-caused climate change... indeed, much more than the 2% implied by this grossly biased article...

I wrote and posted these comments in response to an AlterNet.org article this morning. That very biased article was titled, "Ridiculous pseudo--science garbage": Meet the GOP's environment leaders! What do the 8 Republicans who sit on the Senate Environment Committee think about climate change? We break it down."

If anything is "ridiculous" "pseudo-science" and "garbage" it is the notion or theory or opinion that man has been the primary cause of changes in climate. Like the tightly held religious belief of 'believers' of the flawed theory of evolution, these man-caused climate change believers are essentially truth deniers. The so-called scientists and academics had to falsify the data to 'prove' their point about climate change (ClimateGate). The media, academia and government still put stock in those discredited studies... 

Barry’s Plan for Breaking America’s Back Environmentally

    I received an email from the President via his campaign organization. I doctored his message a little interjecting a bit of truth to an otherwise deceitful document.

 

Tuesday, June 26, 2013

 

Low Information Voter –

I told Congress (IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS AS ANY WANTA-BE-TYRANT WOULD) in February that if they didn't take action to fight (MY LATEST MANUFACTURED CRISIS) climate change, then I would.

Today, I announced a plan of action to make good on that promise.

My administration is taking steps to cut carbon pollution (WHICH IS FALSEHOOD, A FAKE, A FRAUD, A HOAX), prepare our nation for the unavoidable impact of climate change, and put America's best and brightest (AND WASTE EVEN MORE TAXPAYER AND BORROWED CHINESE MONEY) to work to solve this issue on a global scale.

One thing we know is we'll face a well-organized and well-financed opposition by the special interests (INFORMED CITIZENRY, REAL PATRIOTS WHO KNOW ABSOLUTELY WHAT I AM DOING IS RUINING THE ECONOMY AND OUR INDUSTRIES) that profit from keeping things the way they are (AMERICA AS A CAPITALISTIC, FREE-ENTERPRISE SYSTEM) -- and there are members of Congress who fundamentally deny the (JUNK) science on this issue.

But we cannot stand by any longer (OUR DESTRUCTIVE, PROGRESSIVE MARXIST MARCH MUST MOVE FORWARD).

I need to know you’ll fight alongside (BLINDLY FOLLOW). Say you will.

Over the next few months and years, I'm going to need the millions of (ORGANIZING FOR ANARCHY) OFA supporters who understand that we have a responsibility to future generations to fight climate change to join me, and be a force of change (FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMING, CHANGING AMERICA FROM LIBERTY TO TYRANNY) in your communities.

We owe it to our children and grandchildren to take action -- and now is the time.

Today, I'm here to tell you I am (SHOULD BE) committed to doing my part.

Say you'll do yours:

http://yournot.my.barackobama.com/Stand-Up-FOR-THE-GLOBAL-WARMING-HOAX

Thanks,

YOUR BEST BUDDY, BARRY

The Creator Scoffed

“… As recent advances in cosmology suggest, the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to appear spontaneously from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper (excite) and set the universe going…”

--- Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, excerpt published in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal from an upcoming book, The Grand Design.

The WSJ article was provocatively titled, “Why God Did Not Create the Universe, There is a sound scientific explanation for the making of our world - no gods required.” Hawking is an atheist. To me it takes more ‘faith’ to believe in spontaneous creation, than it does in believing in a Creator. The complexity and the order in the universe and in the cell evidence a designer. I don’t care if the so-called scientist must resort to theories covering trillions of years to ‘prove’ their points. They are grasping at straws. Evidence is also found in the bible itself, which reveals this powerful fact penned by Paul in the book of Romans (chapter 1, verse 20):

“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they (Hawking, Hitchens, Darwin, et al) are without excuse.”

--- Paul, Romans 1:20

Anyone with eyes can see the evidence, but many turn a blind eye on the truth.