;isCharCJK(char&nbsp;c)</pre>
<div class="block">Returns if a character is one of Chinese-Japanese-Korean characters.</div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>c</code> - the character to be tested</dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>true if CJK, false otherwise</dd></dl>
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Ron Reagan's DNC speech was exploitation--of his father and of science.
Yet “there are those who would stand in the way of this remarkable future, who would deny the federal funding so crucial to basic research,” he warned, concluding we must “cast a vote for embryonic-stem-cell research” on Election Day.
Now why would the Democrats choose Ron “Jr.” to deliver this speech? The reason, naturally, is that Reagan is not only the son of a conservative Republican former president, but of one whose disease we’re told could one day be cured with embryonic-stem-cell therapy.
As to Ron Reagan’s convention speech, it was so opposite the truth as to resemble a photographic negative.
Far from blocking federal embryonic-stem-cell research funding, Bush specifically authorized it so long as it used existing lines of embryonic cells. But more remarkably, Ron Reagan made absolutely no reference to an alternative to embryonic stem cells that is decades more advanced and carries absolutely no moral baggage. “Adult stem cells” can be extracted from various places in the human body as well as blood in umbilical cords and placentas. They were first used to treat human illness in 1957.
By the 1980s, adult stem cells were literally curing a variety of cancers and other diseases; embryonic stem cells have never been tested on a human. Adult stem cells now treat about 80 different diseases; again embryonic stem cells have treated no one. Adult stem cells obviously aren’t rejected when taken from a patient’s own body, though they may be from an unmatched donor; embryonic stem cells have surface proteins that often cause rejection. Implanted embryonic stem cells also have a nasty tendency to multiply uncontrollably, a process called “cancer.” Oops.
The only potential advantage embryonic stem cells ever had was the belief that only they could be coaxed into becoming all the different cells of the body. We don’t even know whether that’s true. Conversely, three different labs have now discovered it may be true of certain adult stem cells.
Further, perhaps we have no need for “one size fits all.” In recent years researchers have found that they can tease various adult stem cells into far more types of mature tissue than was previously thought possible. Moreover, they seem to find adult stem cells essentially wherever they look–including blood, bone marrow, skin, brains, spinal cords, dental pulp, muscles, blood vessels, corneas, retinas, livers, pancreases, fat, hair follicles, placentas, umbilical cords, and amniotic fluid. We may need all sizes, but we don’t need them from one type of stem cell.
So why do we keep hearing so much about “miraculous” embryonic stem cells? Because private investors know otherwise, pumping money into adult-stem-cell research and leaving embryonic-stem-cell labs and companies desperate to feed from the public trough.
Ron Reagan began his talk saying it “should not–must not–have anything to do with partisanship,” thereby signaling its sole purpose. The Democratic position on stem cells is a cynical and cruel attempt to disenchant Republicans ignorant about adult stem cells and make them feel Bush is pig-headedly stopping a technology that will cure everything from Alzheimer’s to AIDS. In what’s already a nasty campaign, Ron Reagan’s stem-cell speech may have been the most vicious attack yet.
–Michael Fumento is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a syndicated columnist with Scripps Howard News Service, and the author of BioEvolution: How Biotechnology is Changing Our World.
Discussion in 'iLoveSugar' started by iLoveSugar, Oct 22, 2013.
What are your thoughts? Overblown? 
My thinking is that one can live fine with Lyme disease if the immune system is properly treated, intestinal action is running good, and detoxification is good.
As a former chronic Lyme sufferer,my experience is that it doesn't work as easy as that.
I didn't realize they had lime disease in Europe, Dutchiee. of course it makes sense, but I thought it might have a different name there. Here, it was named after the destination of origin - Old Lyme, CT. Ticks are a big problem where we live.
The diseasecis called Lyme anywhere in the world.
And the disease indeed got the name from the place of origin. The US were doing illegal experiments to create a secret weapon by infecting ticks with the borrelia bacteria...but things went wrong and the people in the town of Old Lyme became infected,the ticks spread....and thats how it all started.
Thats what ive heard and read several times anyway.
Did you have videos online of your Lyme experience?
Ok, I seen videos on YouTube regarding Ray Peat and someone else's Lyme experience. Can I ask what helped you? Long term antibiotics? I just tested positive (IgM).
@ilovesugar ive seen those vids too,although too late.
Ive never did AB bc it was already too late for it,had been walkung around with it for 10+ years....yet conventional medicine diagnosed me