SO A READER WROTE TO ASK IF RICK PERRY’S STEM CELL THERAPY would hurt his chances for the GOP nomination. I don’t see how it would. Here’s the key bit:

The governor’s procedure did not involve embryonic stem cells, which he and many other conservatives ardently oppose using for medical research on both religious and moral grounds. His treatment involved removing his own adult stem cells from healthy tissue and injecting them back into his body at the time of surgery, with the belief that the cells would assist tissue regeneration and speed recovery.

As I understand it, most social-cons are actually quite supportive of adult stem-cell therapy, as opposed to embryonic stem-cell therapy. The fact that the particular treatment that Perry got hasn’t been approved by the FDA doesn’t seem like something that would have a lot of people upset either, but perhaps as a libertarian I’m missing something here.