Michael Fumento lays out the facts about amniotic fluid stem cells in this Daily Standard piece. Fumento is a science writer and he explains the scientific significance of the breakthrough in a succinct and informative manner. For those interested in such arcania, it’s worth a read.
Fumento also gets into the ongoing news blockade that downplays non embryonic stem cell successes in much of the mainstream media. Needless to say, it was in effect at the New York Times about the amniotic fluid stem cell advance: “The New York Times…simply never reported the news about [stem cell researcher Anthony] Atala’s work. When a reader complained to the ‘Public Editor,’ an online ombudsman, about the omission, the Times responded that its genetics reporter, Nicholas Wade, “‘ooked at the Atala paper last week and deemed it a minor development.’ Wade said of the paper, ‘It reports finding ‘multipotent’ stem cells in amniotic fluid. Multipotent means they can’t do as much as bona fide embryonic stem cells (which are called ‘pluripotent’).”
”…Wade could [not]be more wrong. As Atala told PBS’s Online NewsHour, ‘We have been able to drive the cell to what we call all three germ layers, which basically means all three major classes of tissues available in the body, from which all cells come from.’ I pointed out in a response to the New York Times posting that merely reading the online abstract of the Atala paper indicated the same. Of course, this is the same paper that told readers in 2004 that there were no cures or treatments with adult stem cells. Not 70 cures or treatments, some dating back half a century—none.
It is neither paranoia nor exaggeration to say that the New York Times is engaged in a stem-cell cover-up.”
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