My main point in this post is that once again the Plato's Chosen of the left have prescribed what the correct science will be before there has been any evidence to validate the finding. Thus they demand that science only investigate this issue if the result meets their own political answer.

This is an issue I feel very strongly about as I feel this is damaging the ability of scientists to uncover the true models of our scientific reality in much the same way that the Popes of the 1600's did when science did not agree with their religious viewpoint.

As I understand it the main problem with embryonic stem cells is there proclivity to cause cancer. From what I have read the reason we "Age" is that our bodies turn off their regenerative properties in order to keep cells from mutating and turning cancerous. This means that embryonic stem cells may cure your Alzheimers but wiill give you cancer instead.

Before we authorize the research into embryonic stem cells from human fetuses I think we should develop the technology in animals and determine harmful side effects like "causing cancer" are eliminated. If we can't do it in animals it is unethical to begin human experimentation for this reason, the issue of where the cells come from and how they are gotten aside.

9 times out of 10, if a character in a work of fiction is a scientist and there's even the SLIGHTEST bit of unease to his methods he's either a bad guy, working for the bad guys or a good guy who's lost his way – ESPECIALLY if said scientist outwardly exudes intelligence, because intelligence is ALWAYS a sign of human-detachment and eeeeevil (also: British or German accent? forget about it.) That's how you spot the "good" scientists: They're brilliant but look/sound like "regular folk."

Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, writes on the subject monthly in his column “Making Sense of Bioethics” at The National Catholic Bioethics Center. I’d encourage everyone to check him out at http://www.ncbcenter.org