September 21, 2006

  • Stem Cell Research vs. Suicide Bombers

    It’s always amazing to me, when people try to coax me into a discussion about stem cell research, and in the same breath, condemn Israel for taking a stand against suicide bombers.  Let’s compare the two topics. . . .

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    When I was in research, we used to get some rare antibodies for our ELISA’s from Israel.  The only place that carried them.  That is often the case.  Someone makes an antibody, and it’s useful to others, so they market it.  Israel makes many products in relationship to stem cell research.  Antibodies for fluorescent antibody studies.  Cell lines for cultures.  You name it.  People are always ranting about how stem cell research can save people.

    Bluntly, their dead babies are helping to save people’s lives.    		I don’t know of a useful product that our lab got from Palestine.  Do they even care about molecular biology research?  Or just incendiary warfare?

    Bluntly, their want their babies to end other people’s lives.
    Israel has a great educational system, and many people travel there to study.  The people who study there complete degrees that help them in computer science, molecular biology, political science, and the arts.  They can then go on to use those skills to help others in many countries, including in the Americas and Asia.Some Palestinians return to Palestine from other countries.  Perhaps it’s our biased press, but all that I see that they have learned is to hate and kill other people.  I can’t think of a person in any of the places that I’ve worked who has come from Palestine.

     I have coworkers from Morocco, India, Thailand, Philippines, Kenya, Lebanon, Estonia — all wonderful people and great to work with.  But no one from Palestine.


    Highly educated people tell me they want stem cell research to continue.  But they want the destruction of Israel.  I don’t see how they can want progressive research, and still say they want the destruction and loss of a country that has some of the most advanced research facilities.

    Ignorance is curable.  Stupidity is not.