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Category Archives: embryonic stem cells
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
Early ESCR Success Reveals Possible Future Hard Choices
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Advanced Cell Technology is reporting that a very preliminary review of its ESCR-derived eye treatment shows safety and potential efficacy. From The Lancet: Schwartz and colleagues have realised the potential … Continue reading
Advanced Cell Technology Touted Again as the The Little Bioetech That Could
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Oh good grief. As I recounted in detail in Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World, the human cloning/embryonic stem cell research company, Advanced Cell Technology, has been masterful at … Continue reading
Lead Into Gold: IPSCs Continue to Amaze
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Another breakthrough was announced by Stanford scientists using induced pluripotent stem cells. From the press release: Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have shown that iPS cells, viewed as a … Continue reading
Keeping the Embryonic Stem Cell Hype Alive by Creating a False Impression
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC This is unbelievable — except it isn’t: A front page story in the SF Chronicle, headlined “Keeping Hope Alive,” purportedly concerns local young woman named Katie Sharify, who was the … Continue reading
Science Writer Avoids The Point of My Media Stem Cell Bias Charge
By 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 Geron’s … Continue reading
LA Times Circles the Wagons on ESCR
By 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 Times … Continue reading
The Only Stem Cell News Biased Media Sees Fit to Print
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Remember Ron Reagan’s nonsense speech about embryonic stem cell research (actually human cloning research) at the 2004 Democratic Convention? Media swooned at the garbage and the hype (e.g., Parkinson’s cures … Continue reading
Geron Abandons Embryonic Stem Cell Research!
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC This is huge. Geron, which has spent many years touting its embryonic stem cell program as the future of regenerative medicine, is abandoning the field. From the Washington Post story: … Continue reading