Reply #41: Be clear: there are numerous types of stem cells.

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Bush's ban was on funding embryonic stem cell research using stem cell lines created after a certain date.

Bush's administration's been funding embryonic stem cell research on the few pre-existing stem cell lines.

Stem cell research, embryonic and otherwise, has gone on for decades. Much non-embryonic stem cell work is relatively new, it's only been in the last decade or two that they've known how widespread they were. But much of the embryonic stem cell research keeps running into severe problems. I haven't heard of one clinical trial that involves embryonic stem cells, or one cure (outside, I think, of a Chinese doctor who didn't use controls, but who used fetal stem cells: but this wasn't a trial.)

The admin's also been funding stem cell research on all the other kinds of stem cells: those from umbilical cords, bone marrow, fat, dental pulp, etc., etc.

But the MSM doesn't make a distinction. It's decided all stem cell research must be embryonic, so it's understandable why people say counterfactual things.