Millions of babies born. Millions more dead or frozen. That is just the kind of progress that the Nobel committee likes.
British scientist Robert Edwards, the man who devised the fertility treatment IVF, has been awarded this year’s Nobel prize for medicine.
His efforts in the 1950s, 60s and 70s led to the birth of the world’s first “test tube baby” in July 1978.
Since then nearly four million babies have been born following IVF.
The prize committee said his achievements had made it possible to treat infertility, a medical condition affecting 10% of all couples worldwide
Read that last sentence again, “his achievements had made it possible to treat infertility.” Without IVF there are NO OTHER treatments for infertility? Fuzzy science and fuzzy reporting go hand in hand.
I suppose it should come as no surprise to anyone that Edwards beat out the Japanese scientist that discovered how to make stem cells from ordinary skin cells.
The big prize money and recognition in medicine comes with killing babies, not saving them.
October 4, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Ugh. This is so frustrating. 🙁 IVF is not a treatment! It is a procedure to create babies, and after the babies are born, the underlying issues causing the infertility still remain.
NaproTechnology is true treatment for infertility! We need to make people aware of this amazing option! The success rate is far better than with IVF!!
October 4, 2010 at 4:26 pm
The strange thing is that the Nobel committee wants to award Dr. Edwards for making it possible to bring more babies into the world. I always thought the Nobel committee was made up of the same globalist, UN types who are constantly whinging about overpopulation and how we need more abortion access. So naturally produced babies are bad, while artificially produced, designer babies are good? What am I missing here?
October 4, 2010 at 4:26 pm
We all need to keep in mind that Nobel prizes don't mean anything anymore. Have we forgotten who won the peace prize last year?
October 4, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Robert- YES!
October 4, 2010 at 11:23 pm
I'm sure Obama is furious that HE didn't win this award…for Obamacare.
October 5, 2010 at 12:03 am
Knowing the happiness and joy IVF treatment has brought to so many – not to mention the scientific advance this represents – this is a wonderful award.
October 5, 2010 at 1:03 am
I recently interviewed Dr. Anne Mielnik who runs the Gianna Catholic Healthcare Center for Women in New York City. They offer natural, effective and pro-life infertility treatments. The facility needs to build its patient roster so if you know any women in the NYC area who need infertility treatment, education on natural family planning or basic health care, refer them to http://www.giannahealth.org.
The podcast is at http://www.christophers.org/closeuppodcast if anyone's interested. "Faith & Family Live" will also be posting an article soon.
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October 5, 2010 at 4:06 am
You are completely wrong. The doctor who plays GOD the best wins the money. The skin cell thing isn't anything compared to creation and destruction of human life. This is all about science doing away with God.
The whole thing is disgusting. That said, read your CS Lewis Space Trilogy. It's like a prescient map to our wacked-out times. Especially the part about people setting themselves up as gods in place of the genuine article.
October 5, 2010 at 10:07 am
It's good thing for him to have been awarded with such a insight/solution for infertility issues. Think that because of this many childless couples are rewarded for their wait, isn't too much for others to oppose?
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October 5, 2010 at 10:15 am
I believe any invention has its advantage and disadvantage which is also true to ivf. This method is only helpful when done in good purpose.
October 5, 2010 at 10:35 am
there's 7 billion people in this world. it took about 30,000 years to get the first 3.5 billion people and it only took 50 years to get the other 3.5 billion people. we need to teach people to stop having babies, not having babies if we want to continue as a species. the earth has limited capacity.
October 5, 2010 at 1:40 pm
The earth does not have limited capacity.. you think because more people are born the earth is going to fall out of orbit? NO. God is in control, and we should let him control life and death and not take ip upon ourselves to create some wacked out treatment.
October 5, 2010 at 2:08 pm
I'd just like to point out one flaw in the article. The gentlemen that proved you could make stem cells from skin cells may well get the Nobel prize one day, but only once we know the true impact of his work.
As it stands stem cell research is still really in its infancy and, as such, it is almost impossible to determine if the treatments and the research have had any real impact.
It has benn almost 60 years since Edwards did some of his original work. Give it time and we may see these other stem cell scientist get their reward – if their work has indeed had a positive impact
October 7, 2010 at 3:13 am
Thanks, in part, to Edwards' work, we now have thousands of small human beings in cryostorage. The majority will die without a chance at birth. Some will be experimented upon, and others will be torn apart for their cells.
Poor Alfred Nobel. He established the Prizes so that he would be remembered for something other than his invention of dynamite, after he read a newspaper article calling him a 'merchant of death ". Now his prize is being given to a man who has cheapened human life in a way Nobel never dreamed of…