So does the guy now not believe in God? I mean the equation was pretty simple and it failed...

ooh, speaking of *fail

Also, I always get pissed off when people say that "god gave us the gift of doctors." Fuck you. Doctors went to medical school for 4 years and studies SCIENCE. They didn't get "blessed" with some "magic" power allowing them to wave their hands around and cure people... After all, these doctors also perform abortions and stem cell research, how do you know which ones are god-approved?

As for the Israel thing... oh just stfu... I don't even know where to begin with that crap. The religious significance of a shitty piece of desert has the world in turmoil and none of them can see that they are all delusional followers of fairy tales? All I got to do is watch idiots carrying crosses down a street, dopes bobbing their heads in front of a wall, or lemmings walking in circles around a rock to know that none of these religions (or any for that matter) know a damned thing about the nature of the universe.

>> ^BoneRemake:
thats really low of that show. I would down vote that if I could.
Too soon doesnt even explain it, its just in bad taste.


I understand your point, but I never saw Mays using his fame and fortune to advocate more funding for medical advances that prevent people from dying of curable diseases, so he doesn't seem to have been as opposed to death as he could have been.

>> ^nach0s:
IMO, most national (and global) achievements haven't been as outwardly observable as past achievements. For example: the internet. Personal computing. Nanotechnology. Miniaturization of every conceivable electronic device. They are all amazing achievements, but they aren't as sensational as a trip to the moon.


I love how people just don't care about organ regeneration or any advances that are more than 10 or 20 years away.

Even if you're young now, some day your organs will fail --in one of an endless variety of painful ways. When that happens, you'll be surprised, and you and your loved ones will probably cry at the unforeseeable tragedy of it. Then, since nobody likes a dying person who's bitter, you'll talk about how the death and disease process is actually beautiful, even though, um, you kind of wish you weren't dying.

If you have organs, then organ regeneration is orders of magnitude more useful to you than watching on TV some guy in orbit walking on a piece of rock.

Nothing's happened as big as going to the moon?

The 90s saw the invention of the internet, and in the human sciences were considered the "decade of the brain." The 2000s saw the sequencing of the human genome and the first successful milestones in organ regeneration.

Annual global scientific output now is orders of magnitude greater than it was in the 60s.

>> ^vairetube:
here's to stem cells and nanotech eventually biting a big chunk out of cancer's ass and spitting it in cancer's face. fucking son of a bitch cancer.

Seconded.

hehe payback on the razors edge! true enough so far . though bernie mac was the man too.

seemed like a pleasant and focused invididual. extra sad to have recurrence take him... so fucking cruel to destroy everything regained.. ug.

here's to stem cells and nanotech eventually biting a big chunk out of cancer's ass and spitting it in cancer's face. fucking son of a bitch cancer.

>> ^Kevlar:
Hey, maybe he's hugging her to apologize given how everybody (including him) just loves to dick around with stem cell funding.


Yeah, but why cure diseases when you can treat them ineffectively for twice the cost?

Hey, maybe he's hugging her to apologize given how everybody (including him) just loves to dick around with stem cell funding.

^I think the Abrahamic religions tend to regard that either as resulting from humans' fallen nature, or as being a part of humans' purpose in making the world more perfect.

In contrast, it seems like injustices that are intrinsic to humankind, like kids born without faces, with sub-human intelligence, or with both male & female sexual organs, are much more difficult to explain religiously.

These things will be able to be fixed with stem cell-based treatments and gene therapy, but that's not for a couple of decades.

Olbermann is just covering his bases, no real problem there. I don't mind the voice.

I think we're dealing with the concept of Triage here, though.

One has to decide a heirarchy of critical issues. It's not a commentary on the amount of importance the issue has... ALL issues are important to someone.

I'll be gay now, I'll be gay later... Other things need attention NOW. That's how you start to decide.

In a generation we could change the world by valuing children and education/science above all else. I see Obama making a STRONG push in that direction, beginning before his presidency and continuing. Stem cell cocktail anyone???

The US NEEDS to not have to have a military reach so large we can't sustain it... Having no military solves the problem of having to decide who's in it, doesn't it now...

I read a couple years ago about successful initial efforts in the areas of 1. growing new teeth from scratch using stem cells, and 2. replacing the bacteria colonies in our mouths that cause tooth decay with bacteria strains that don't cause tooth decay, and which can outcompete the harmful bacteria strains.

00:47, and that stare is going to haunt my dreams for the rest of my life.

>> ^ponceleon:
I love these videos because I just see how long I can last... I did pretty well on this one - :58 seconds.


>> ^rougy:
1:10 and I had enough.


[Edit:] Damn, curiosity got the best of me from reading the comments, The nationalized health care really does stick out as the worst point she makes. Here in Ontario the way health care works is we're covered by O.H.I.P. (Ontario Health Insurance Policy) And the way it works is that if you -NEED- something, you get it.

Broken arm, baby delivery, emergency situations from accidents, ambulance rides, brain surgery, hell, this may be a bit TMI but even women who get very heavy periods (to the point of severe pain) can have their uterus taken out, ect. are all covered indefinately.

Things you DON'T need, strictly cosmetic plastic surgery, (and now due to cuts in the policy) Dental, and Eye checkups ect. are not covered by O.H.I.P. but are generally covered under policies provided by employers. (Well, the dental and eye exams anyway.)

This isn't like insurance companies in the states, the province doesn't decide that what you're getting is too expensive and therefore you've lived a good life, everyone is covered, even if you're not employed, and that's probably what the American system would be like, in my opinion.

The only problem I see with switching to a Nationalized health care system is that at the start, since you'll be having people going to the doctors for things they couldn't before (people who couldn't afford things like kemo ect.) will now be able to, and you'll have an influx of patients at the same time.

After a couple years of the system though, on the whole the amount of people going should be in decline and you should actually see a much healthier America.

And Generally when a country gets over-populated, they don't start out killing off elders. They limit the amount of children you can have. Which, and this to some may sound incredibly cold, may be a good thing if the ban on stem cell research gets lifted. If that ban becomes lifted and a limit ever goes into effect, if you attempt to concieve another child then the fetus is forfeit for stem cells. I may have just come across as a cold, cold bastard, but rather then bring another child into an overpopulated world, you potentially just saved the life of one of its citizens.

Stem cell scientists have already had success growing breast tissue from the patient's own cells. 20 years might be a conservative prediction for when natural breast enlargement will be available on the market, include time for regulatory approval.

Stem cells can cure almost any ailment or problem a person has.

We need more people blogging about it to get the medical companies to listen. If it were up to them nothing could be cured, only temporarily relieved with unnecessary surgeries and criminally overpriced drugs.

Stem Cells are the future!

Timeline of successful transplants

1905: First successful cornea transplant by Eduard Zirm[9]
1954: First successful kidney transplant by Joseph Murray (Boston, U.S.A.)
1966: First successful pancreas transplant by Richard Lillehei and William Kelly (Minnesota, U.S.A.)
1967: First successful liver transplant by Thomas Starzl (Denver, U.S.A.)
1967: First successful heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard (Cape Town, South Africa)
1981: First successful heart/lung transplant by Bruce Reitz (Stanford, U.S.A.)
1983: First successful lung lobe transplant by Joel Cooper (Toronto, Canada)
1986: First successful double-lung transplant (Ann Harrison) by Joel Cooper (Toronto, Canada)
1987: First successful whole lung transplant by Joel Cooper (St. Louis, U.S.A.)
1995: First successful laparoscopic live-donor nephrectomy by Lloyd Ratner and Louis Kavoussi (Baltimore, U.S.A.)
1998: First successful live-donor partial pancreas transplant by David Sutherland (Minnesota, U.S.A.)
1998: First successful hand transplant (France)
2005: First successful partial face transplant (France)
2006: First jaw transplant to combine donor jaw with bone marrow from the patient, by Eric M. Genden (Mount Sinai Hospital, New York)
2008: First successful complete full double arm transplant by Edgar Biemer, Christoph Höhnke and Manfred Stangl (Technical University of Munich, Germany)[citation needed]
2008: First baby born from transplanted ovary.
2008: First transplant of a human windpipe using a patient’s own stem cells.