Category Archives: CIRM

Cry Me a River California Institute for Regenerative Medicine!

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The sense of entitlement of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and its supporters would choke a cow. California is about to run out of cash! — and its supporters … Continue reading

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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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Sacramento Bee Notices CIRM Management Flaws

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The Sacramento Bee is like all major California newspaper editorial boards — liberal and in the tank for Big Biotech. (I still don’t understand this love for BB, and the … Continue reading

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CIRM Celebrates Funding Luxury Stem Cell Buildings As California Disintegrates

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Front page story in the S. F. Chronicle on the great research building opening at UCSF for all kinds of stem cell research. Much was privately funded, which is great. … 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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CIRM Freely Spending Broke California’s Money

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC California is Greece without the Acropolis. And yet, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine–perhaps its profligate administers fearing that the people of California will pull the plug when its ten … Continue reading

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