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>Cells from a human embryo were grown into a patch that was delicately inserted into the back of the eye. I assume the baby didn't survive the process since there's no mention of that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is important because, for some, the moral dilemma would preclude this treatment.
It's also important because a baby was killed to give a rich old guy a few more years of sight. A whole new underclass of children worthy of murdering for medical treatment arises.
Of the two comments that addressed the moral indignity of the treatment (that it requires the death (murder, in most cases) of an innocent human person for its success) they were considered to be "noise".
“He was one of two patients given pioneering stem" I find the tiny test groups in medical ‘research’ so strange.
It's a test to see if they should bother moving forward. You don't want to gear up a big study just to find out that the treatment gives everyone cancer (which is a concern mentioned in the article) or that it doesn't work at all. You do a pilot study to see if there is potential before you waste a lot of work and maybe hurt people. Anyway if the effect size is big enough, you don't need a really large study to get s…
I regularly see comments on YC about Signal-to-Noise ratio, and how YC votes are meant to distinguish the "signal" from the "noise", but in this case, it's clear that this isn't what they're being used for. They're being used to enforce a preconceived bias. Of the two comments that addressed the moral indignity of the treatment (that it requires the death (murder, in most cases) of an innocent human person for its su…
I regularly see comments on YC about Signal-to-Noise ratio, and how YC votes are meant to distinguish the "signal" from the "noise", but in this case, it's clear that this isn't what they're being used for. They're being used to enforce a preconceived bias. Of the two comments that addressed the moral indignity of the treatment (that it requires the death (murder, in most cases) of an innocent human person for its su…
>Cells from a human embryo were grown into a patch that was delicately inserted into the back of the eye. I assume the baby didn't survive the process since there's no mention of that.
>Cells from a human embryo were grown into a patch that was delicately inserted into the back of the eye. I assume the baby didn't survive the process since there's no mention of that.
If, at some point in the future, scientists figure out a way to coax normal cells to become totipotent, will you consider amputation as murder?
If this is a viable treatment method, it would help only the minority of macular degeration patients.