Happy New Year

by Wesley J. Smith

To all of those who stop by Secondhand Smoke, whether you agree with my views or not, I wish you health, happiness, and prosperity in the new year. Thank you all for your . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Dec 2005 0

Thinking Animals Are Like Humans

by Wesley J. Smith

This story involves a bitter controversy in Los Angeles over euthanizing the millions of stray cats and dogs that LA has to contend with, the tactics of some animal liberationists that may have successfully induced (coerced?) the mayor to fire an embattled head of the city’s animal control . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Dec 2005 0

My Weekly Standard Column on Hwang Fraud Now Available

by Wesley J. Smith

The Weekly Standard has posted my piece in this week’s issue on the Hwang debacle on its Daily Standard site, so it is now available to non subscribers. Here is the link.Since this was published, the independent investigation has concluded there were never any cloned embryonic stem cells. . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Dec 2005 0

Seoul Times on Hwang Fraud

by Wesley J. Smith

There were no embronic stem cells made through cloning, as claimed by Hwang in his fraudulent 2005 paper in Science. None. This probably means he also fraudulently claimed to have created an embryonic stem cell line from cloned embryos in 2004. Still unknown, but increasingly unlikely, whether he . . . . Continue Reading »

29 Dec 2005 0

Hwang Did Not Create Any Cloned Embryonic Stem Cells in 2005

by Wesley J. Smith

This is short, so I will just reprint the story rather than link it. Hwang made it all up.SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean scientists had no data to prove claims made in a landmark 2005 paper that they had produced tailored embryonic stem cells, an investigation panel said on Thursday, indicating . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Dec 2005 0

Ian Wilmut Wants to Experiment With Stem Cells on the Dying

by Wesley J. Smith

Ian Wilmut, the creator of Dolly and now a would-be cloner of human embryos wants to experiment on dying people. Rather than go through the usual process of animal studies to test efficacy and safety, he wants to switch quickly to conducting embryonic stem cell experiments upon dying people on the . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Dec 2005 0

Korea Times: Hwang’s Remaining Two Stem Cell Lines May Not Exist

by Wesley J. Smith

If this is true, it should cinch the total fraud perpetrated by Woo-Suk Hwang. Hwang’s excuse for failing to prove that he actually cloned human embryos is apparently going to be that the bona fide cloned embryonic stem cell lines were switched with lines taken from embryos created through . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Dec 2005 0

Kevorkian’s Lawyer is Clueless

by Wesley J. Smith

Jack Kevorkian’s lawyer is upset—and issued a press release to let the rest of us know—that the Michigan Parole Board refused to recommend clemency or pardon, based on Kevorkian’s supposed ill health. But why should it? Kevorkian is an utterly unrepentant murderer who would . . . . Continue Reading »

26 Dec 2005 0

NYT STILL Won’t Describe Therapeutic Cloning Accurately

by Wesley J. Smith

I apologize to regular readers who may be growing weary of my continually posting examples of awful reporting in the therapeutic cloning debate. But this “bias by omission” as I call it, is truly outrageous. On Sunday, in an analysis of the Hwang debacle, Nocholas Wade AGAIN inaccurately . . . . Continue Reading »

26 Dec 2005 0

My Take on Hwang Scandal in Weekly Standard

by Wesley J. Smith

I have weighed in on the Hwang fraud in the current edition of the Weekly Standard. Since it may not yet be available to non subscribers, I’ll quote a few key excerpts here.After extensively describing Hwang’s unraveling, I suggest some of the important issues that need to be explored in . . . . Continue Reading »

26 Dec 2005 0