This Week in Bioethics
1. The Council of Europe Rejects Surrogacy Earlier this week the Council of Europe rejected a...
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Human Gene Editing and Eugenics
A recent essay by Brendan Foht in the Washington Post reveals the backwards logic of scientists...
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1. Adult Stem Cell Treatment Effective Against MS Science Alert reported earlier this week that...
Read More2014 Ramsey Award Winner Speaks Out Against Embryonic Stem Cell Research
A scientist from Harvard, Dr. Doug Melton, has figured out how to use human embryonic stem cells to produce insulin—a potential major breakthrough for those that suffer from diabetes. You can listen to a full NPR broadcast...
Read MoreCalifornia Stem Cell Crony Capitalism
Color me wondering why it took so long: The former head of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine–once in charge of giving away billions of dollars of borrowed taxpayers’ money–has joined a company to which the CIRM...
Read MoreSF Chronicle Turns Against CA Stem Cell Agency
In 2004, California voters passed Proposition 71 under an avalanche of mendacious CURES! CURES! CURES! hype: Children would get out of wheelchairs! Diabetes would be conquered! Mendacity, mendacity, all was mendacity. Ten years...
Read MoreEmbryonic Stem Cells Cheered Better Adult Ignored
This has been a pattern for more than a decade in the media. Success after success in adult stem cell research receives scant press attention. In humans! Then, an animal embryonic stem cell success in the same field happens and...
Read MorePost’s Junk Biology Pushes Human Cloning
Here we go again! Now that human cloning has been done with adult cells, the pro-cloning crowd pushes it using junk biology–just as they did in years past. First at bat: The Washington Post in an editorial. It acknowledges that...
Read MoreMy Predictions in Bioethics Right Again!
Can you believe a year has come and gone since I last told you what would happen, before it...
Read MoreWe Can’t Let CIRM History be Rewritten
Proposition 71, which brought the misbegotten California Institute for Regenerative Medicine into being, was sold to voters in a blatantly mendacious campaign based on embryonic stem cell hype of CURES! CURES! CURES! and...
Read MoreFollow $ to Non-Embryonic Stem Cell Research!
Ten years ago, we were in the midst of a heated national debate over embryonic stem cell research (ESCR). Proponents castigated opponents (like me) as “anti-science,” and theocratic for opposing ESCR federal funding...
Read MoreHuman Cloning Obfuscation 8: A Blastocyst, Not an Embryo
Embryology text books will tell you that when fertilization is completed, an embryo is formed. That, is, a new individual organism exists — which remains the same organism until death. For scientific purposes, the...
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