Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

homestead - Re: [Homestead] Insurance

homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Homestead mailing list

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Insurance
  • Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:16:18 -0500



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


--
BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
34.498N 85.076W Bev is Earth, Ron is Sky





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page