Submitted by Thabang
If people are interested in reading more about what this man Michael Tellinger has to say they can go on his website etc...for me the question are rather simple, well in my mind..whether gene therapy or stem cells it does not matter to me but i ask WHO GETS TO DECIDE FOR THE HUMAN RACE?? this question i suppose also links in with some of the discussion posed earlier...issues of morality etc...me i guess what i am calling for in a re - definition of everything as we currently know it...for example do people know about the large hadron collider experiments being conducted in europe??? scientists are trying there to recreate conditions as they were AT THE BIG BANG, depending on what your belief systems are we are talking about 16 odd billion years ago.....now WHO DECIDED THAT THESE EXPERIMENTS CAN BE CONDUCTED??? experiments whose results may end life on earth as we know it, thats the reality, because nobody actually knows what may or may not happen.....so in the same breath how are world, global matters decided on and who gets to participate and if an alien extra terrestrial race should make themselves known to us, who will be earth's ambassador?
so to talk about - WHO GETS TO DECIDE THINGS FOR ALL OR US??? because so far it seems this privilege belongs to rich nations..
see article below
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Stem Cells – Stepping stones to immortality? Or a waste of time?
(by Michael Tellinger, July 2006, Also see: www.slavespecies.com www.akomati.com and www.zuluplanet.com)
Before we crack the DNA code – lot's of fun to be had with the miracle of Stem Cells.
This week I'd like to shine the spotlight on the tussle between stem cell research and gene therapy. Recently a reader mailed and asked me to investigate the DNA and genetic sequence of Dolphins. Sad to say, that so far there seems to be very little information available and I am not even sure if there is a group mapping the Dolphin genome at present. My guess is that as soon as they have some tangible results it will be posted on the various genome project websites, as it is with the other species being mapped. The results will certainly be fascinating to study and compare to the apes and human genome with specific attention being focused on the number of active genes and introns.
But while we are wrestling with the intricacies of our DNA in an attempt to understand the blueprint for human life, another group of medical scientists are making great strides in the art of manipulating our bodies, with the miraculous abilities of stem cells. And you can rest assured that it will not be in the too distant future that hospitals will become much more than a place for the treatment of sick people. It is quite easy to speculate that hospitals and laboratories will rapidly evolve into organ and body-part factories.
The futuristic view of cloning movies of some years ago is now truly upon us. The scientific media has been reporting that not only can scientists now grow brand new organs from stem cells as ordered by patients or CLIENTS, but surgeons can also re-grow damaged organs like hearts, crippled spines, livers, kidneys and any other problem organs in your body. Stem cell therapy can also reverse the damage caused by Parkinson's disease, diabetes and others. The most encouraging aspect of this procedure, is that it overcomes the problem of transplanted organs being rejected by the auto-immune system of our bodies, which has in the past caused many transplants to fail miserably causing their recipients great anguish.
But when these synthetically grown organs and body parts will actually be unleashed on the human populace is not known. My guess is, not until the pharmaceutical giants have ensured that they have wrapped up the commercial benefits of these procedures tightly enough, and ensured that new legislation has been passed that protects their commercial exploitation of this new area of science.
For those who are still a little fuzzy on the subject of stem cells: The most sought-after stem cells are known as Embryonic stem cells. They are the first cells that are created when an embryo is formed after fertilization. There stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into all of the different cells that make up the body. It is a true miracle of life. In a sense they can also serve as a sort of repair system for the body, while they can theoretically divide without limit to replenish other damaged cells as long as the person or animal is still alive. When a stem cell divides, each new cell has the potential to either remain a stem cell or become another type of cell with a more specialized function, such as a muscle cell, a red blood cell, or a brain cell.
So how do we get stem cells to use for our medical treatments? This is where the moral and ethical argument begins.
For years, doctors have been transplanting adult stem cells or blood stem cells obtained from bone marrow, when performing bone marrow transplants. But in 1998 the first embryonic stem cells were isolated and started the moral dilemma. Is it ethical and humane to keep human embryos alive in a laboratory to harvest the purest form of stem cells from such embryos? Those with life threatening diseases usually answer yes. While those who believe that they are the custodians of human dignity and morality will voice a definite no.
And so, while strong opposition in the USA to stem cell research and cloning is forcing the US giants to set up operations in emerging economies like South Africa, once again we need to come to terms with the fact that no matter how many organs we successfully grow or transplant from stem cells, we are once again practicing reactionary medicine. We are simply treating the cause but not the symptom. Because the source of all our disease and organ failure and physical deformity is not found in stem cells, but rather in the defects of our DNA.
I would therefore not be too concerned about the stem cell area of medical science but on the progress of gene replacement therapy. When we come to master this area of medicine, we will truly be knocking on the door of the Holy Grail that harbours all secrets of life. Our biggest concerns will then become the philosophy of world religions and the concept of immortality.
Because once we have mastered gene therapy, we will be very close to understanding immortality in our species. What effect will this have on our human behaviour? How will we treat the poor backward nations of the world? Do we have the mental and spiritual ability to deal with immortality? Not by a long shot.
In 'Slave Species of god' I briefly deal with this subject but as we make new discoveries in genetic science I find myself conflicted by all this. And it raises some horrific possibilities. Because if our genome was manipulated and cloned to produce a primitive species, it is quite possible that we have managed to evolve and reactivate certain parts of our DNA but not other crucial parts that would normally evolve in tandem. All this could lead to tragic behavioral results by humankind, not really ready for such high levels of scientific knowledge, while our spiritual side has been stagnating, enslaved by the dogma of world religion and the royal political elite, over the past 13,000 years.
