To be fair to Roger Highfield, after I attacked him, on obscuring the distinction between adult and embryonic stem cells (http://socialconservativeview.blogspot.com/2008/11/editor-of-national-scientist-is.html), his website, http://www.rogerhighfield.com/ has the following link and strapline, Embryo-free stem cell method means treatments are nearer, leading to a Daily Telegraph article.
(The URL Is http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3352426/Embryo-free-stem-cell-method-means-treatments-are-nearer.html)
The article itself still seems to regard adult stem cells as an unproven technology compared to the "potential" applications of embryonic stem cells, as seen in the paragraph,
"However, the researchers say that it will be important to determine if human cells generated in the future using this kind of virus are as potent as human embryonic stem cells for potential clinical applications."
Well, the evidence is that the actual applications of adult stem cells are as potent as the hype for the "potential" of embryonic stem cells.
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