Contrary to the major international front page splash over Advanced Cell Technology’s embryonic stem cell non breakthrough, this story, which could be a bonafide major advance in solving the ethical dilemma surrounding ESCR, only received minor media coverage. Why? In my view, because it would . . . . Continue Reading »
This is so ironic: The Kansas City Star, the most biased and inaccurate mainstream media outlet reporting today about embryonic stem cells and cloning—even worse than the New York Time and that is saying a lot—has this story seeking to demonstrate that opponents’ ads against . . . . Continue Reading »
Big Biotech is mounting a clever—it should be, considering the tens of millions being spent on its propaganda campaign—strategy to keep research cloning legal. Here’s how the gambit would work: Pour millions of campaign and advocacy dollars into conservative states to induce voters . . . . Continue Reading »
I am reading this month’s Atlantic and an essay Emerson wrote in April 1862 is excerpted. I was struck that Emerson’s perspective, written to applaud Lincoln’s move toward emancipation, remains relevant and germane to the controversies of our own time.“The end of all . . . . Continue Reading »
The media is touting Advanced Cell Technology’s claim to have helped improve the vision of rats using human ES cells. If true—with ACT and Robert Lanza always verify given all of the lies that they have told—it is an advance in ESCR. But it is worth noting that rat adult stem cells . . . . Continue Reading »
The Swiss prove the point oft made here, in testimony before government bodies, and in my articles on the subject, that assisted suicide isn’t really about a “safety valve” for the dying for whom nothing can be done to alleviate suffering—the usual sound bite of domestic PAS . . . . Continue Reading »
Big Biotech is shoveling tens of millions into a propaganda campaign to convince the American people to embrace ESCR and human research cloning. Toward these ends, a new book is being published by an academic house called The Stem Cell Wars, by Eve Herold, Director of Public Policy Research and . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been asked to provide more details of the incident, mentioned in a previous entry, in which James Kelly was forcefully prevented from telling Christopher Reeve about advances in spinal cord injury research using adult stem cells. I am happy to oblige. Here is Kelly’s account of the . . . . Continue Reading »
These stories are ubiquitous but I report them here from time to time because it is worth keeping in mind that adult stem cell research is moving forward at a very nice pace in human patients. First, Australian researchers are reporting in early studies that adult stem cells can indeed help treat . . . . Continue Reading »
James Kelly is an activist friend of mine who is solidly against ESCR and human cloning. Years ago he was in a terrible automobile accident that left him paralyzed—and he has devoted himself ever since to seeking a method of treatment that will help him walk again. He once supported ESCR, and . . . . Continue Reading »
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