“But I thought human life-destroying embryonic stem cells were the ones that were going to help people!”

Nope.  Embryonic stem cells have helped–get ready for it–0 people.  That is zero, goose-egg, none.  Not one person on this green earth has been helped by a treatment from embryonic stem cells, because scientists have not been able to come up with even one treatment.

Adult stem cells, however, have helped tens of thousands of people and continue to do so, even curing once-incurable diseases like sickle-cell anemia.

As a side-note, I quit grousing briefly about Wikipedia, registered as a “Wikipedian”, figured out how to make edits, and edited the entry on sickle-cell anemia to add the proven fact that sickle-cell anemia is being cured by adult stem cells, but hours later another Wikipedian removed my factual addition based on an objection to the reference I used.

Don’t believe everything you read on Wikipedia: certain people have more power in it than others, like with any human organization, and thus they are able to control what people read and think to be true.

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