Stems Cells Without Killing a Fetus?
2 September 2006If you followed the news the last week you doubtless saw the headlines that scientists has successfully created fetal stem lines with destroying a fetus. That’s what they said. Well, that turns out not to be the case.
“We now know that none of this was true. In actuality, scientist at ACT destroyed 16 embryos that they had developed to the 8-10 cell stage–just as occurs in conventional ESCR. They then removed most of the cells and placed them in culture. Out of 91 early embryo cells, known as “blastomeres,” ACT scientists derived two embryonic stem cell lines.”
This according to the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network. It seems that ACT wasn’t satisfied with the modest advance they’d made and needed more publicity that it would have generated. So they fudged a little in their press release.
“Such a modest advance in science isn’t worthy of breathless headlines and ubiquitous front page coverage. So, ACT, perhaps hoping to improve its finances by generating bounteous free publicity, issued a profoundly misleading press release strongly implying that no embryos were destroyed in the experiment. And with that, the media were off and running.”
Predictably the MSM wasn’t particularly interested in making corrections once the truth was known. In most cases they let it lay and in the case of the Washington Post, they continued to perpetrate the lie!
“But now that the truth is known, surely journalists are tripping over each other to correct the record. Not a chance. Other than a few quiet stories, such as in Newsweek and The Economist, the media have either just stopped reporting the story leaving the misimpression they created laying on the table, or as with the Washington Post editorial of August 28, actually continued the charade.”
I’ve noted in multiple posts how the left is less interested in the truth than they are in their prefered outcomes. The truth takes a backseat to their perception of “right”. The MSM ise notorious for this sort of action and it should surprise no one.
The CBC articles closes with this statement:
“So this is the unfortunate bottom line: When it comes to stem cell science, the media is not a reliable source of credible information. And that is bad for America because without a reliable Fourth Estate, democracy founders.”
How true! The full story from the CBC can be found here.
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October 27th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
[...] I’ve written here and here about the problems with fetal stem cell research. But liberals believe that their pet projects deserve unlimited federal funding when the private sector has determined that there is little reason to invest in them. And Democrats have no problem exploiting people like Fox in order to destroy their opposition. It’s a combination of the “politics of personal destruction” that Bill Clinton perfected and the Jersey Girls phenomenon that Democrats so effectively exploited for so long. That is, until Ann Coulter blew the whistle on them. [...]