Yes, they are, and I consider that a GREAT thing. I don't want restrictions placed on stem cell research when it has the possibility to save millions of lives. From your responses, we can assume that you are adamantly against medical and scientific advances. Big shock, that.
Here's the thing...
We can already inject DNA into the nucleus of a cow egg and zap it with electricity, thus reprogramming that egg to be human. And we can even get that egg to start dividing as if it were an embryo,
creating a bunch of human stem cells. Beyond that, we just aren’t sure. Will these embryos create viable stem cells to treat all those nasty human diseases? Or will they just be duds that act too much like cow cells to be usable by humans? If there’s even a small chance that the former will come to pass, it’s worth investigating – and we’ll have
solved the human stem cell shortage problem. --
Animal-human hybrid clones
See?
We can eliminate the need for human embryos in stem cell research. Banning such research means we'll continue using human embryos. Don't you want to save the children?!?!? :doh
Does not look like so much of a waist anymore does it?
Actually, this looks like a waist.
So you did not respond correctly to my initial reply I see.
Ah. You didn't like my response, so it's "incorrect." Was I
required to "respond correctly?" And who gets to decide what a "correct" response is? YOU? :doh
So you either completely missed my point or are being willfully ignorant.
Oh, I got your point. I responded the way I did because your point is stupid.
You see, slapping a
New and Improved! name on an existing thing/place/geographical area doesn't really change anything about that existing thing/place/geographical area. Whatever animal health businesses in that area today were also there last week -
before the "Animal Corridor" designation was plastered over them - doing business as they've always done. Whatever presumed "tourism" that
might occur because the region has a fancy new title (pasted on top of NO CHANGES/IMPROVEMENTS WHATSOEVER) will surely not make or break these businesses.
Be serious, dude. How many people who never had any interest in going to Kansas City are suddenly going to make vacation plans because the
Kansas City Animal Health Corridor title is SO incredibly intriguing? :roll:
You know, I remember when they changed the name of Candlestick Park in 1995. The park didn't change. The location didn't change. The crappy weather didn't change. And
nobody called it 3Com Park. Or San Francisco Stadium at Candlestick Point. Or Monster Park. The Giants never stopped calling the stadium Candlestick Park in their media guides. It was and always will be Candlestick Park, no matter how many names they give it. The city/county even had to change the freeway signs back to read "Candlestick Park" because those other lame names just got people hopelessly lost. The bottom line is, the fancy new names changed nothing and did nothing to improve tourism. Essentially, the whole name change thing was a flop.
I'm sorry, but I believe spending congressional time discussing nifty new business-related monikers (that will never be used except by total dinks) for geographical regions is a complete waste of my tax dollars. Obviously, you think such things are just great.
God help us.