It's come time to lie about science again - this time about the reality of embryonic stem cell pluripotency - and some of the old lies are coming back out of the storage shed. For instance, I've heard about how adult stem cells have cured or treated 72 diseases. Oh and embryonic stem cells, they've cured none. It's been a while since we've seen this adult stem cell nonsense.
To understand the problem with this list and why these citations don't say what they think they say, we have to learn a little bit about adult stem cells and a big scary word - transdifferentiation.
The main problem with those "72 treatments" is that they were not using adult stem cells to generate new tissue, rather they used adult blood stem cells as part of the chemotherapy to replenish the patient's blood.
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