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Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> > There are hundreds of folks alive today because of gene therapy,
>
> Hundreds?   There are hundreds of people alive to day because, so
> they say, they bought a swatch of prayer cloth from this or that
> televanelist.  Hundreds isn't going to hack it.


I should have said alive and doing well, because many of the diseases 
that are treated with genetic manipulation are not fatal diseases.
Therapy and treatments are not cures, although with genetic 
manipulation, the potential for cures is great.


> Astrology and Genetics are like apples and oranges
>
> > and your knowledge of modern genetics is antiquated if you think
> > that today's genetics is like yesterday's astrology.
>
> Do you remember Laetrile?  
>
> Gene therapy is much the same.  It's still mostly theory and promise,
> and the actual clinical application of it has a very, very sparce
> track record not much better than chance.

I disagree, and I think comparing it to using laetrile(which I do 
remember) is not a good analogy.
> If you think that gene therapy has actually accomplished much more
> than that, your knowledge of genetics is fanciful.

Okay.  Perhaps so.  Genetics is my least favorite biological science and 
I'll admit that I don't keep up with latest and greatest advances.  It's 
a hard science that is often confusing for the lay person, or even for 
someone like me who has a better than average understanding of it.

Bev


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