Medical silence, money and stem cell research

IN support of Dana Rosemary Scallon’s letter (Irish Examiner, Oct 31), and the bishop’s plea to the Taoiseach, I wish to draw attention to some aspects of the scientific dishonesty that is being propagated in an endeavour to hoodwink people into believing that embryonic stem cell research is necessary and imperative for human welfare.

It must always be repeated that such research involves the treatment of embryos as if they were non-persons and not entitled to the utmost protection for their wellbeing from conception to natural death.

In addition, why is there such widespread ignorance about the failure, so far, of such research to produce any useful results, and the contrasting tremendous progress in adult stem cell research?