In my opinion, we have to pay attention when we speak about a category, e.g. politics, as all member would be efficient, i.e., really clever politicians. First of all, the category of politicians isn’t a politician, and category of physicians isn’t a doctor.
As a conseguence, as I have recently wrote on http://www.nature.com at URL http://blogs.nature.com/nm/spoonful/2009/03/ready_set_pipette.html#comments ,once again, I invite every man of good will, to reflect upon the central problem, in spite of all others, different in nature, regarding stem cells study and utilization: Quantum-Biophysical-Semeiotic Constitutions of the donors! Do you know that in Literature there are a lot of cases of osteoporosis and cancer in individuals treated with stem cells, overlooking perfectly these constitutions, i.e., donors mit-DNA and not only n-DNA? Read my critical comments at URLs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/comments/display?contentID=AR2007041101736&start=41
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080822/full/news.2008.1060.html?q=2#last-comment
http://blogs.nature.com/reports/theniche/2008/06/pfizer_dips_a_toe_into_cell_th.html#comments
In my opinion, Obama’s recent decision on stem cells study and utilization represents a paradigmatic example of “politics without politicians”. In fact, my OLD, unhearded j’accuse against today’s a-scientific use of stem cells, I consider AS a CRIME, directed through an Open Letter also to former Italian Minister Fabio Mussi (Ask http://www.google.com), aims to highlight the dangerous, present use of stem cells, which can bring about serious, severe, deadly complications, as a large Literature already demonstrates.
Politics without Politicians, Medicine whitout Physicians, end in Middle Ages of today’s Medicine.