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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
Yeah, but in medicine, we don't exactly treat patients with dangerous remedies when less dangerous methods do a good job. Comparing the risk of a bus hitting you as you cross a street to the risks of a stem cell transplant displays a severe lack of knowledge of the risks involved. Taking "the wrong drug cocktail" is not a big risk. These drugs do have side effects, but stem cell transplants are VERY risky. Making light of that just shows your ignorance of the medical issues involved.
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You can call me ignorant but you're being ignorant of my point: Ish happens. People die from all sorts of things so, if a person WANTS the all-or-nothing option, they should be allowed to do so if it's available.
I have personal recollection of a man who was treated with an HIV drug cocktail that DID kill him because it was the wrong combination of drugs for his body. Taking the wrong cocktail is "not a big risk" now but it wasn't always that way. There is reduced risk now because medicine is more advanced and the correct combinations can be pinpointed without so much trial-and-error. Who is to say that, if this option were worth pursuing and the proper research was done, stem cell research wouldn't be so risky for future generations? You speak as though stem cell transplants will always carry the risk they do now but given how many have said more research and testing should have been done before this announcement, I would think it'd be obvious that this thread isn't solely about the possibility of today.
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