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Tag 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
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
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
Stem Cell Fountain of Youth Story Intended to Boost CIRM Re-Up Drive?
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC As I have written here previously, the arrogantly managed and wildly expensive California Institute For Regenerative Medicine will be up for renewal in 2014. Its leaders want the suckers voters … Continue reading
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Tagged CIRM, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, escr, stem cell research
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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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Tagged California, CIRM, stem cell research
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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
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
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
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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California Institute of Regenerative Medicine Pays Big Salaries on Broke California’s Borrowed Money
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The CIRM is funded by state bonds, billions in borrowed money that the people of the impecunious State of California will have to pay back with interest. That is why … Continue reading