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Italian stem-cell trial based on flawed data
- transfire 13y agoAllow the results to speak for themselves.
- Kurtz79 13y agoI'm Italian, and I disagree completely. There is a reason (many actually) because clincal trials are subject to countless checks and hurdles before they are carried out: you cannot play with people's lives to prove your theories, regardless of how good your intentions are and how much you are convinced these theories are correct. If the theory is based on flawed data (that is to say, there is no real ground on which to expect positive results), giving false hope is just sadistic.
- dn2k 13y agothis is just the last article on that topic.. read also: http://www.nature.com/news/stem-cell-ruling-riles-researchers-1.12678 http://www.nature.com/news/stem-cell-ruling-riles-researcher... http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/05/italy-may-rein-in-rogue-stem-cell-therapy.html http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/05/italy-may-rein-in-rogue... http://www.nature.com/news/stem-cell-cloner-acknowledges-errors-in-groundbreaking-paper-1.13060 http://www.nature.com/news/stem-cell-cloner-acknowledges-err...