Comments on: Beware of Bogus Clinics Offering Stem Cell Cures

By: Terminal Patient

Terminal Patient — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:51:22 +0000

Maybe if the FDA would make experimental medications and procedures available to TERMINAL PATIENTS (do they think they’re protecting us from something?), people wouldn’t have to seek their treatments outside of the country. Yes, we know there are sharks out there, but there are also legitimate clinics that are in compliance with the ISSCR. Sadly, for some of us the only option is to go out-of-country for treatment or die. Even more sad are the patients who cannot afford that option. It’s time to get the FDA out of its love-lock with Big Pharma and back to serving the people.

By: Larian LeQuella

Larian LeQuella — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:03:16 +0000

W00t! :D

Although I saw on the DNA court case that there was a spam post for a bit. Hopefully your plug-in works (is it a Glade plug in by Johnson & Johnson?).

By: Eliza Strickland

Eliza Strickland — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:50:05 +0000

Hi, Larian– I just turned off the ReCaptcha thing, which I’d been meaning to do ever since we got a better spam filtering plug-in. So comment away!

By: Larian LeQuella

Larian LeQuella — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:59:22 +0000

I too came over because of CNN “getting the stoopid”. We tend to be rather casual over there, so hopefully we don’t destroy the community of your blog. ;)

By the way, is there some way that those of us who subscribe to the print magazine can get a permanent log in so we can bypass the recaptcha thing and all that?

By: Eliza Strickland

Eliza Strickland — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:09:08 +0000

Glad to have you, Gary, and any other BA blogees who stumble over!

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:22:10 +0000

Blaming science for the foolish marketing used to sell these “cures” is just silly. Money is all these folks want and damn the buyer.

Glad I stumbled over this science news site(ok, I actually came here from the Bad Astronomy site). It will be added to my regular science reads.

GAry 7

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:48:16 +0000

From Simon LeVay’s “When Science Goes Wrong”:
“To counteract the onslaught of Parkinson’s disease, a patient undergoes cutting-edge brain surgery using fetal transplants, and is later found to have hair and cartilage growing inside his brain.”
This procedure was done in China. It was upon autopsy that the “new baby” was found growing inside the patient’s brain.
Incidently, LeVay’s book is a must-read.

By: Larian LeQuella

Larian LeQuella — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:18:24 +0000

And this is why there is a need for a site like http://whatstheharm.net Sadly, lack of critical thinking is what allows people to be duped like this. While I am normally a “Small Government” type of person (although with very liberal social stances), I must recognize what I call the “douchebag factor” in human dealings. Those are the ones who willingly take up the mantle of snakeoil salesman in order to bilk (and even harm) other people.

Sorry, didn’t mean to rant!