Category Archives: California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad Stem Cell News!

By 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 campaign … Continue reading

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California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Borrows and Spends BIG as State Flounders

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC When I think about the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, what words come to mind? Well, there’s “arrogance.” “Hubris” also works. “Mismanagement” is on all fours, as we say in … Continue reading

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CIRM to Try and Sucker Californians Into Letting It Borrow Even More Money

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC When proponents of Proposition 71 shouted CURES! CURES! CURES in 2004, perhaps the people of California could be forgiven for believing them — what with all the hype going on … Continue reading

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How to Offend 101: CIRM Awards Prize to Poem Equating ESCR With Words of Jesus at the Last Supper

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Hubris and arrogance have no limits for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine — as I have often shown. But utter cluelessness? Anyway, here’s the story: To promote stem cell … Continue reading

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CIRM to Californians: Mind Your Own Business About How We Spend Your Borrowed Money

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The arrogance and hubris of the California Institute of California Medicine has grown — one would not have thought it possible — even more pronounced. We Californians, who are borrowing … Continue reading

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