The Great Stem Cell Scam

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07152009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_great_stem_cell_research_scam_179265.htm?&page=0

This is perhaps the most damning article I have ever read as to what has happened to real stem cell treatment for patients (not rodents) in this country. I have been suspicious all along of the snail's pace that treatment seemed to be taking. Michael Fumento, author of this expose on the embryonic stem cell scam has begun what I hope will be the unraveling of a corrupt group of self serving researchers fueled by politicians, the media and a certain regulatory agency that we all know and love. Together this group has effectively shut off U.S. citizens from being able to have life saving stem cell treatment using adult stem cell therapy in the U.S.

Dr. Irving Weissman should immediately resign his post at Stanford as well as with the ISSCR. He has portrayed himself as an independent doctor concerned about the welfare of patients when in fact his agenda is one of acquiring personal wealth through patents. This is all at our expense folks. Millions of us are dying while Dr. Weissman and others of his ilk are getting rich.

CNN should be embarrassed as well. In their latest effort to bash doctors who treat patients with stem cells in other countries, they hauled in good old Irving who pronounced "As a stem cell scientist who works in the field of regenerative stem cells, I am disappointed and shocked that somebody would prey on a family that has an untreatable disease with the promise of a therapy that has no scientific or medical basis,". You can read the whole article here http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/14/stem.cell.regenocyte/index.html?section=cnn_latest and judge for yourself how scared you think Dr. Weissman might be that doctors overseas may really be onto something. This of course would take away from what he is doing to earn that extra pin money he makes with patents.

There is enough evidence coming from overseas to effectively convince me (including my own treatments) that the U.S. is once again a victim of a few greedy people who are lining their own pockets. Politicians for the most part understand very little about stem cells. They don't take the time to read up on much of anything let alone learn something about a subject that could change the way the entire medical world does business. Many thousands of patients are making it to visionary countries to seek treatment without waiting for the blessing of the FDA. They are disregarding the advice to stay home and die. Many are having great results. Some are victims of snake oil salesmen which the media warns us about in every medical tourism story ever written it seems. This is the same media however, that has not warned us (until Michael Fumento broke ground) that some of our own scientists are selling snake oil.
Mr. Fumento's story should be headline news in every publication around the world, but you won't find it.

My hats off to this man. He has opened up the door and confirmed my suspicions. If you can afford it and aren't too ill to travel, by all means, seek reputable treatment outside the U.S. It's obvious that nothing is going to be available in the U.S. for quite some time. What a dirty, horrible scam. Shame on all those involved.