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The Skeptics’ Dilemma – 4/5

Science changes people’s minds because it works. Show me some homeopathy that works, some astrology, some psychic power, and I’ll have no problem with it.

At the beginning of 2014 Nature published a paper that claimed to have simplified the process of producing stem cells to the point that only a slightly acidic solution and some pressure was necessary. Now if that worked it would have been a revolution in producing stem cells because no longer would expensive and toxic chemicals be required. It required no psychic to predict that if it worked anyone which wanted to produce stem cells would be doing so in short notice. But guess what? Do you see school biology classes happily turning out stem cells? No? Why not? Can’t remember Big Pharma stepping in and forbidding it because their expensive chemicals had become obsolete. You don’t see it because it doesn’t work. Read more…