CNN Misrepresenting the Truth about Stem Cell Research
I've never heard of this website so I don't know anything at all about them. I just happened on this article while doing a Google search. The author apparently feels much the same as we do, and isn't too bashful about saying so (making some good points, including the same one that I did). Well worthwhile reading. Comments are allowed.
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CNN Misrepresenting the Truth about Stem Cell Research
For several nights now we have been watching the Lou Dobbs show simply because it coincides with the end of the dinner hour and usually Dobbs doesn?t give us indigestion. Until yesterday.
However on June 2 and 3rd on the Lou Dobbs show, CNN aired an ?in depth interview? from non-other than their gossip hound reporter Drew Griffin. The real stem cell question is why is CNN promoting questions about stem cell therapy especially when it works? Did they not have enough stem cell scientists, doctors and professionals here in the US to interview, then why did they pick this doctor in Peru. It made this doctor sound like he was doing something illegal or against medical advice which is misrepresenting stem cell therapy.
Of course your going to have people leave the United States for medical treatment because alternative medicine for instance is almost outlawed in the US. Any treatment that does not have the corrupt FDA stamp of approval is not allowed and people know better.
The title of the clip was called ?Stem Cell Therapy Questions? simply a rhetorical question indeed. We all have questions but to question the only viable ?cure for diseases? yes that is Cure with a c, is an abominable act of journalistic hearsay and uncontrollable biased against stem cell research. The story is supposed to discourage you from seeking cures or successful treatments found in foreign countries. CNN did not travel to Canada, Japan Russia or Germany to actually do an accurate story but chose lie about just one doctor who is charging people for treatments.
Excuse us but isn?t that what doctors do anyway, Lou?
Lou Dobbs Misrepresents Stem Cell Research on CNN
Lou Dobbs says ?thousands of American families ?desperate? for a cure to their incurable illness is an insult. I am sure if Lou Dobbs or Mr. Griffin were faced with death- they would do the very same thing considering their own wealthy pocketbooks. Not everyone seeking stem cell treatments is desperate -some people are using it for the anti-aging benefits and it works for them so why is that a problem?
Dobbs goes on to say that these ?desperate? people are paying thousands of dollars -we wonder how much Mr. Dobbs would pay for his own life? What is that worth to you Mr. Dobbs?
The reason they are desperate Mr. Dobbs is because medicine is headed in the wrong direction with drugs, chemotherapy, and failed techniques in mainstream medicine that continue in their efforts to boost profits instead of viable cures for a multitude of illnesses. Medicine has become a business only in the United States where drug companies peddle their influence and prescriptions to Congress.
Under the Bush administration and thanks to many republicans except for Nancy Reagan -stem cell therapy was outlawed in the United States. Many doctors for the last 8 whole years have surpassed the US in discovering not only benefits of stem cell transplants through research -they are curing diseases.
And yes Mr. Dobbs these ?poor desperate? people have had to travel to other countries to get treatment and that proves the point -they should not have to go to other countries to seek viable and proven successful treatments to save their own lives.
Drew Griffin sites the FDA as the authority that stem cell research and treatments are unproven. This is of course because the FDA is inhabited by former drug company executives that want to keep selling drugs instead of researching stem cell treatments. After all if your own stem cells can cure your illness you will not have the need for useless drugs ever again.
By CNN perpetuating myths, half truths and blatantly biased reporting to keep the status quo, to keep their advertisers content is in itself how drug companies pay for the favor of the media news broadcasts. Drugs offer no cures Mr. Dobbs and they will eventually kill you. Pharmaceuticals control the field of medicine, research, the networks, and now education as some students found out at Yale. this is the medicine of the past. After all the major revenues of the CNN network are derived from these same drug companies. The interview with Lucie Bruijn of ALS Association only continues the stem cell negative reporting. Dr. Bert Feinerman of stemcellregenmed.com as he says on his website and what is true about stem cell research is that, the findings prove that stem cells regenerate any type of tissue or organ in the body.
It is proven with animals such as Vetstem.com that have cured arthritis and bone degenerative diseases in horses and dogs that race once again after having stem cell transplants using fat tissue. These animals are cured of and repair an injury or disease. It is obvious CNN?s intention was to mislead us into believing stem cell research holds no promise and it is almost likely they are saying its hopeless to believe in the promise of the possibilities of cures.
What would be the problem in regenerating a diseases liver? Or a heart and can CNN?s reporters say that to a person who has these illnesses? Notice they didn?t interview any of the afflicted persons who had successful treatments which is suspiciously biased in reporting half truths.
Where is the ?No Biased - No Bull? that CNN advertises itself as -and the clich?s of ?drilling down? the story?
Not true CNN. The truth is that President Obama sees the promise of this type of research and is putting dollars into it, rather than the policy of the Bush administration to ignore it -allowing millions of people to die from diseases. No drug has ever cured disease because drugs only work on the symptoms and the side effects most often outweigh the benefits. Yet the FDA keeps approving these dangerous drugs that offer no hope to the sick and dying.
Why would CNN take such interest in doing 2 stories in 2 days to disprove the effectiveness of stem cell research?
What would Drew Griffin have to say to Michael J. Fox - would he say too bad Mike -so sorry you have Parkinsons?see you man. Too bad your going to die of it?
International Society of Stem Cell research says these experimental treatments do not work? says Griffin. He doesn?t quote his sources but if you look at the Website there is no finding of the kind Griffin reports about in his story. In fact the Society of stem Cell research applauds President Obama for opening up funding for more stem cell research within the USA. If this type of treatment was not viable then why did President Obama allow funding for it?
Mr. Griffin if you going to report the real story do study the truth before you begin to bash stem cell research and treatments as some sort of phony treatment and a biased story does not go well with the CNN moniker ?No Biased -No Bull?.
If you really want to know the truth CNN pushing drugs on your network makes you part of the problem of perpetuating dangerous drugs which actually makes the network no better than a national drug dealer network.
It has become painfully obvious when we see the erectile dysfunction ads on your evening supper hours -every single night that your not up to the truth.
As Fiona Watt wrote to the Texas legislature on April 14th, 2009 ( sited from the isscr.org website when Texas refused to allow funding for stem cell research quote:
?As the primary international organization of scientists, ethicists, and clinical researchers in the field of stem cell biology, our considered opinion is that research on stem cells of all types should be pursued with the goals of gaining better understanding of human physiology and relieving the burden of disease and disability. Cutting edge research continues to demonstrate the great potential and need for all types of stem cells to lead to improved understanding and treatment of many terrible diseases, injuries and medical conditions.?
Take that CNN.
It will be researchers in other countries that will far surpass the US in curing diseases because they are not corrupted by big pharmaceutical influences which prevent stem cell research. It is misleading and negative reporting such as CNN that will help keep diseases prevalent in the US and keep health care costs into the stratosphere which of course benefits their advertisers who will not allow the cutting of their profit margins. Lou Dobbs gives you not only indigestion but misrepresents the facts, shame on you Lou - Michael J. Fox will remember you forever especially the CNN Biased Bull part.
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