Michael J. Fox attacked for his support of stem-cell research

The right-wing, anti-science crowd dissents viscously:

Rightie reaction? John Amato has an audio of Rush Limbaugh accusing Fox of faking his symptoms. “He is an actor, after all,” says Rush. (Rush is from a very wealthy and influential southeast Missouri family.) . . .
. . . While Michael J. Fox (like me) has some skin in the stem cell game that most people don’Â’t, that doesn’Â’t give him any special appreciation of the moral issues involved with embryonic stem cell research. Sick people may want cures and treatments more than the healthy population, but that doesn’Â’t make them/us experts on morality.

Update:
Orac with more here and here.

Comments

Mack
Fox is not being attacked for supporting stem-cell research. He is being attacked for lying and saying dishonestly that Steele, Tallent and others oppose research. They do not. He is being attacked for implying that fetal stem cell research offers a cure. It does not. He is being attacked for, as he admits, not taking his medication before filming these ads and appearing in hearings in order to look as bad as he possibly can. What is the difference between that and “acting”?
CJD
The difference between the actual effects of an actual disease and “acting”? Surely you jest.
Jeff Barson
Showing symptoms of a disease that you have is not acting.
Straw Man Alert: Attacks made on the messenger are not the message.
Criminallopath
Right wing anti-science crowd? Ah yes. The same crowd of morons that elect those into office on the Republican side that push for damage caps in med-mal cases. If memory serves me correctly, this same crowd was the one that helped to elect El Presidente… the same one with the ideas of special legal protections for providers.
Anonymous
Sounds like all that drug abuse left Rush Limbaugh with serious brain damage.
Gasman
Fox is entitled to his opinion, he is not entitled to a vote (as he is not a Missouri citizen) and we need to see where his priorities lie.
Fox wants to alter the governance of a state in which he does not live, and is using his celebrity and disease state to push his views. That he believes he has much to personally gain from his actions means that his considered opions are to be weighted accordingly. He is likely so miopic from his personal plight that he cannot consider actually allowing Missourians to craft law that ultimately affects only Missouri. Ultimately, any knowlege gained in stem-cell research will be disseminated from whatever quarters of the globe advances are made.
Any ‘mistakes’ Missouri makes at this point will affect no patient at any point. No cures exist and none are denied.
CJD
“Fox wants to alter the governance of a state in which he does not live, and is using his celebrity and disease state to push his views.”
Whenever people back any federal law or politician they are to an extent pushing for governance in states they do not live. That’s a weak claim.
Or do you not support the HEALTH act with its malpractice limits because it seeks to regulate states that you do not live in?
Anonymous
Mack:
re: “He is being attacked for implying that fetal stem cell research offers a cure. It does not.”
Where do you get your evidence to support such a statement? The anti-science blog de jour? The fact is we DON”T KNOW. That is the purpose of RESEARCH.
Gasman: I am surprised by your statement. Fox clearly is the ads because his face value in the setting of a progressive neurologic disease. Just because he is not a Missouri resident is meaningless. With respect to your statement “No cures exist and none are denied.”. Scientific research has given us as Doctor’s most of what we have to offer patients presently. Without research and the advancement of science we would still be bleeding people with leeches. Food for thought.
Drinkysr
If stem cell researcher were talking about cures for fatness, baldness, opiate addiction, hearing loss, or rectal cysts you can be Rush would be at Fox’s side.
Well, maybe not for the rectal cysts. He needs those to dodge any upcoming drafts.
Gasman
CJD has a nack for nonsequitor.
We all share the same federal laws, and are all supposed to participate in some manner to effect federal governance. State laws apply only within the bounds of a particular state. States have autonomy in many matters for reasons you can review in your high-school civics class. Fox has little to gain by meddling with the Missouri constitution.
I have no idea CJD what the hell you’re talking about with the HEALTH thing.
CJD
Of course you don’t. Which is amazing considering you back Bush’s tort reform act. That’s actually the official name of the act.
Do you do no investigation into the things you claim to support.
Fox has much to gain, for state boundaries do not dictate where a breakthrough might be made. If you’re him, you don’t want it to be limited by such arbitrary lines.
Anonymous
It’s so amazing how arrogant you liberals are. Someone disagrees with you and they’re a backwoods redneck. Some actor LIES in a political ad, and you libtards attack the guy who points out the lie. You’re obsessed with Limbaugh because he nails the Left with the truth every day. Oh, sure, I know you’ll call me deluded or something, but that’s just typical of narrow-minded, self-righteous, arrogant liberals.
Fox ADMITTED he goes off his meds to demonstrate the effects of the disease and Limbaugh did NOT criticize him for it, he merely pointed it out. Did any of you high-and-mighty Leftists even listen to the show????
-libsareidiots
Anonymous
Anon 11:15:
I’ll repeat my statement since critical thought is not your strong suit
re: “He is being attacked for implying that fetal stem cell research offers a cure. It does not.”
Where do you get your evidence to support such a statement? The anti-science blog de jour? The fact is we DON”T KNOW. That is the purpose of RESEARCH.
PS: I am not a liberal I am a scientist. Fetal stem cell research offers clear possibilities to those with progressive neurodegenerative diseases which may of may not pan out. That is the purpose of RESEARCH. I don’t expect an ideologue like you to understand. Also of course Fox off his meds shows his baseline. Those meds are based on what??? Oh yeah scientific advancement. dah
Anonymous
Anon 11:15- Fox most certainly has NOT admitted that he goes off his meds when taping ads. That idea came from Limbaugh himself, who made a statement on his website that he has received many e-mails from listenings claiming that Fox said such in a past interview, although every major news outlet has searched for evidence of such an interview and has not found it.
Do you know a thing about Parkinson’s? I ask, because if you did you’d surely realize that going off one’s medicine does not amplify tremors and dyskinesia- these are not symptoms of the disease but rather side effects of the medicationst themselves. Untreated Parkinson’s causes rigidity, to the point where in advanced cases one cannot move their face or speak.
Rush Limbaugh has since eaten a little crow and posted an apology and retraction on his website (where, by the way, he emphasizes that he never said Fox was “faking”, but that he was “acting”- what the hell is the difference in those two words?). He is still, to paraphrase, a big fat drug-addicted idiot.
Anonymous
re: He is still, to paraphrase, a big fat drug-addicted idiot.
Now now anon 9:35…To Rush’s credit he really isn’t that fat anymore. He is just a drug-addicted idiot.
Robert
Listened to McCaskill yesterday
(10/31) and paraphrasing.. she
stated if GOD gives us medical
knowlege we should use it…
This idea of any gain justfies any means would allow MJFox & McCaskill to approve of Josef Mengele views on “subhuman” medical research in germany ? If we can devalue the embryo’s as non life, where do we draw the line ?
Current Chinese medical research is using third trimester BABY brain tissue to put into brains for supposed healing if not cures of brain disorders. Are we ready for the next add…
MJFox and other political ‘stars’ could do so much more raising private money & organizations.. do it yourself.. don’t force it on other !
Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayuINRlr9Lo

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