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August 06, 2004
Oops
Everybody makes mistakes, but I'm an expert at it!
I made (another) one a little while back. Michael Fumento had written an article on Ron Reagan's speech at the Democratic convention. After some internal debate I decided to write a piece on it and I had these 'nice things' to say about Michael Fumento's article: "heavy-handed in his criticism of Ron Reagan" and I said that it "isn't true" that embryonic stem cells had never been used in human testing. I even referenced a study as proof. (As I'm sure you know, anybody who references a study is always right!)
Well, Mr. Fumento read what I had to say and he had some choice words to say to me...
And they were all pleasant and polite. If you read the comments on that posting you'll see he wrote:
"Thanks for the mention, but I'm right even on that one part. The abstract you link to explicitly refers to "fetal neural tissue," which is exactly that. It is not embryonic stem cells. A fetus by definition has developed past the embryonic stage and contains no ESC cells.
Best,
Mike Fumento"
And, yes, he's right. I missed the distinction, which in an important one in this discussion. Not only is he a good writer, he's nice also. Where would the world be if everybody was like this? Probably much more pleasant with skinnier newspapers.
I guess I better buy his book.
Posted by Dave at August 6, 2004 08:48 PM
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