Obama to End Stem Cell Ban Monday

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I was browsing around about stem cells for my English paper and this Brian guy is well, a stalker of stem cells! He has posted on what seems almost all the stem cell articles I have read that have comments! FREAK!
Who comes back to an article 3 months later to follow up on comments???
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Bobby of IL 3:49AM December 19, 2009

"I love the references to 7th grade science textbooks, where Brian's science education ended."
Joe, answer the question: since science textbooks (including those used by students well beyond seventh grade) accurately cite fertilization as the beginning of a new human being's life, on what grounds, exactly, do you argue otherwise?
"Brian, the funding is available, and will most likely continue to available indefinitely. Good for you for fighting the good fight, but victory is soooo so sweet."
I can't wait until a majority of Americans realize what a waste of resources ESCR have proved to be. In California, the CIRM announced that only four of its fourteen stem-cell projects will involve embryonic stem cells.

Brian Gillin of PA 7:56PM October 31, 2009

Alan Yavina: "Mr Gillin, if you were a firefighter, and you could save either a five year old girl or twenty frozen embryos from an inferno, who would you save?"
Your "argument," stolen from Ellen Goodman, has been addressed at great length in EMBRYO, by George and Tollefsen. For one thing, one might choose to save the five-year-old girl because there's no guarantee that someone could successfully implant the twenty embryos (which is an indictment, really, of in vitro fertilization). For another thing, arguing that one would choose to save someone other than a human embryo is nowhere near the same thing as saying that the human embryo should be deliberately killed, which is what takes place withing ESCR.

Brian Gillin of PA 7:52PM October 31, 2009

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Yaxwzboz of IN 9:26AM July 15, 2009

It has been quite amusing to follow Brian Gillin's self quest to "educate" the world on stem cell research. Do a google search for "brian gillin stem cell" and you find the same tired diatribe over and over again. I love the references to 7th grade science textbooks, where Brian's science education ended.
Brian, the funding is available, and will most likely continue to available indefinitely. Good for you for fighting the good fight, but victory is soooo so sweet.

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Jeremy Clark of AL 12:43PM March 10, 2009

Mr Gillin, if you were a firefighter, and you could save either a five year old girl or twenty frozen embryos from an inferno, who would you save? If an embryo is a person, you'd have to save the twenty rather than the one, right?

Alan Yavina of AZ 11:49PM March 08, 2009

Mr Gillin, if you were a firefighter, and you could save either a five year old girl or twenty frozen embryos from an inferno, who would you save? If an embryo is a person, you'd have to save the twenty rather than the one, right?

Alan Yavina of AZ 11:49PM March 08, 2009

I see so many people here who accuse President Bush of being anti-science, while they, themselves, don't know the difference between an embryonic stem cell and an embryonic human being. In order to obtain embryonic stem cells, an embryonic human being must be destroyed (killed). So many people on this thread are using the terms "embryo" and "stem cell" interchangeably, which is fallacious.
Someone said something about opening up a biology book. I have, and biology books (and the WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA) agree with our side, not yours. An embryo is a human being in an early stage of her development, and fertilization is rightly cited as the beginning of a new human being's life. All arguments in favor of destroying human embryos fail right there.
By the way, an acorn IS, botanically speaking, a young, undeveloped oak tree, and a chicken egg IS a young, undeveloped chicken IF IT IS FERTILIZED, which most eggs sold in a supermarket AREN'T. Not that I'd eat them, anyway.

Brian Gillin of PA 8:18PM March 07, 2009