The Need for Science

Mitochondrial disease is a relatively new disease, whilst children have suffered from this condition for hundreds of years I imagine most would not have survived childhood.

We have created an incredible future for our world, however with these advances come the insidious and hidden side effects. Environmental damage is not only those unsightly images of rubbish on our beaches or animals caught in discarded nets adrift in the ocean.

The greatest concern to mankind should be the integrity of our DNA or those chemical and substances which are causing damage to animals and humans alike. We have created a new and exciting world one that I feel blessed to be a part of.

Now how do we fix the problems that mankind is creating, there are so many mutagenic agents that we are exposed to everyday, agents in everything we eat, touch, breath and wear. I am personally glad the green movement is make everybody aware of this problem. Yet I rarely hear the church regardless of faith condemn this assault on our DNA and future health,.

Why is it then that religious zealots must condemn good science that has so many possible benefits to mankind. There are millions of people around the world living with genetic disease from a mild hearing problem to a severe mitochondrial condition. Collectively these conditions cost our society trillions of dollars a year globally, in Australia this will be counted in Billions. 

A recent breakthru by a team in the UK caused much uproar by the zealots of the world, “how dare science make a child free of mitochondrial disease they say”. When science can bring three parties together to create a healthy child free of a deadly disease or a lifetime of suffering surely this is good science.

I only ask the zealots to read their history books and focus on the past and keep their nose out of the future where they do not belong nor are they wanted.

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http://hplusbiopolitics.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/mitochondrial-transplant-for-human-embryos/