Hey Pedes sorry this is more of a question but it will help me take on soft normies that we could shift over prior to Election Day, especially with the attention ACB is getting and how awesomely pro life Pence was at the debates. I’m happy that Trump now feels like Superman post covid. We’ll need him to so we can send a clear message to the DC swamp creatures. But now my normie friends are saying “why is Trump trying to restrict fetal tissue research when he took Regeneron which used it.” I did my research and yes there were cells used from an elective abortion in 1973 in the Netherlands. But the cells from that known as HEK-293 freely sub divide and are widely used due to their stability. I’m no scientist but it sounds like these are embryonic cells harvested long ago and then subsequently cultured and carried forward. I am 100% against any kind of research that somehow encourages abortion but I’m not sure how to refute this. The GOP platform rightly prohibit stem cell research but Trump benefited from a drug developed in part with them. Does anyone have a clarifying point of view on this? If someone wants to donate cells to science sure. But I draw the line on using aborted embryos or fetuses. I cannot support that.
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There's another fake news article on r/politics (like any other day) that features a false claim that Regeneron, the company that developed the experimental drug cocktail that Trump took, used Human embryonic stem cells in the antibody cocktail research.
The source is a twitter post linking to the company's policy on stem cells usage.
https://twitter.com/AryaKicksButt/status/1312810063497629698
https://www.regeneron.com/sites/default/files/Regeneron-Position-Stem-Cell-Research.pdf
Although they say that they're using embryonic stem cells in limited experimental trials, nowhere does it state that in this specific drug cocktail that trump took, used embryonic stem cells. Here's a link to the paper they published regarding REGN-COV2 (the antibody cocktail that trump took)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.02.233320v1.full.pdf
They used FBS (Fetal Bovine Serum) which is made from cows and pretty much all the other culture and cell mediums used there do not contain any human embryonic cells.
Amazing. Thank you Pede. This is exactly what I was looking for. Dispelled the fake news and slam dunked the truth. PS. Fuck the NBA.