David Oderberg is a friend of mine from the UK and is a philosophy professor at Reading University. In this splendid column published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Oderberg takes on the worrisome trend in which many in society treat scientists as if they were priests. One cause of this phenomenon, . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is a story about another fraudulent paper published in a prestigious peer reviewed journal, this time involving cancer research. Whatever side one might be on regarding cloning and ESCR, we all have a stake in scientific integrity. We have always relied on the journals to self police. But with . . . . Continue Reading »
So now the human cloners in the UK have had a falling out. One researcher has accused his former partner of trying to steal the credit, or some such thing, and taken a job in Spain. He also accused the team of publishing their cloning findings before full peer review. The Newcastle cloning program . . . . Continue Reading »
This Washington Post story summarizes the near hysteria in South Korea over Hwang and his fraud. Even in the face of facts, many of the people just refused to believe the truth that he is a charlatan and had not derived ES cells from cloned embryos.But we also see that here. Despite a lack of . . . . Continue Reading »
FYI: This has been shown in other studies.Insulin Secreted by Embryonic Stem Cells Is Derived From External Sources, Concludes a Study in Cloning and Stem CellsNEW ROCHELLE, N.Y.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan 10, 2006 - Cultured embryonic stem cells induced to form insulin-producing Islet-like . . . . Continue Reading »
Hwang is a fraud and a charlatan. Yet, he apparently was able to create cloned human embryos, although after using more than 2000 eggs, he was not able to derive one cloned ES cell line. He lied. He exploited women on his own research team for their eggs. He blamed others for his fraud. He sure . . . . Continue Reading »
Now Hwang is blaming his junior researchers for the fraud he committed on the world. What a total creep. The time has come for the media to quit reporting what he has to say, since very little of it is truthful. Let him go play with Snuppy the cloned dog until the prosecutors come to his house with . . . . Continue Reading »
The international media continues its effort to minimize the Hwang scandal. Whereas before, we were told therapeutic cloning was going to make embryonic stem cell therapy (the most “promising” stem cell form, they tell us in every story despite the utter lack of scientific proof) doable . . . . Continue Reading »
James Kelly is a paralyzed American who is deeply involved in the therapeutic cloning debate, as he fervently wants to walk again. For years now, he has researched journal articles about stem cell research, corresponded with the scientists engaged in it, and become something of a lay expert in the . . . . Continue Reading »
It is amazing how similar every story I have read on the Hwang fraud follows the same template, including this AP report. Ditto this New York Times story that ran on the front page below the fold.1) Report the facts that Hwang is a fraud, but don’t accurately describe the process of cloning;2) . . . . Continue Reading »
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