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 MoreIn 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...
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Ever since the great embryonic stem cell debate commenced at the end of the Clintion years, I have...
Read MoreTen 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 MoreOnce again, so much for embryonic stem cells being the “only hope.” Scientists have turned bone marrow cells into brain cells. From the U.S.News and World Report story: Scientists have discovered an antibody that can...
Read MoreOh brother. Nature has editorialized against exaggerating adult stem cell potentials for medical cures, which it claims occurred at a Vatican stem cell conference. From “Smoke and Mirrors:” Many scientists around the world were...
Read MoreRecently, I was tagged on twitter about a blog post entitled “Pro-Life Objections to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.” On a number of occasions, especially when I screen our documentary film Lines That Divide: The...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Hype over embryonic stem cell research has been maddening. The media bias, extreme. And many in elected office, intent on using the sector as a special interest source of...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC At least he read the piece, but John Farrell wrote right past the point in attempting to rebut my recent Weekly Standard column about the media’s biased coverage of...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Consider this an addendum to my Weekly Standard piece on media bias in reporting the collapse of Geron’s embryonic stem cell project that came out on Saturday. The LA...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Good. As anticipated, the EU’s top court has banned patents on embryonic stem cells as EU law prohibits patenting products that came from destroying embryos. From the...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC District Court Judge Royce Lamberth has dismissed the lawsuit filed against the Obama funding of ESCR. From the story: A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit...
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