As regular readers of Secondhand Smoke know, I am still looking for a mainstream media outlet to accurately describe somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning, one that simply acknowledges that cloning creates an embryo, which is destroyed for research, or perhaps, (in the far distant future) for use in . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s the latest blatant example of bias by omission in the mainstream media when describing somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning. Once again, the reporter is Nicolas Wade, who writes in today’s story about the Hwang Woo-Suk scandal: “In an article published in Science in March . . . . Continue Reading »
I just received this press release put out by Senator Sam Brownback’s Office:“Late this Friday evening, Democrat proponents of destructive human embryonic stem cell research have lifted their hold/objections to passage of the Cord Blood bill-the “Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research . . . . Continue Reading »
Now Hwang says the research actually happened, but the paper demonstrating his work is being retracted anyway because of errors in photography. But we were earlier told that the journal Science made the errors with the photographs. And he says the samples that could be used to provide independent . . . . Continue Reading »
Tom Harkin has objected to unanimous consent that would have allowed the unopposed umbilical cord blood stem cell bill to reach the floor for vote and passage. Shame on him. Not surprisingly, he is one of the most self righteous in beating his breast against President Bush’s embryonic stem . . . . Continue Reading »
The Science paper claiming that Woo-Suk Hwang created cloned embryonic stem cells has been withdrawn! It was all faked. And yet, it was published in Science, one of the most prestigious science journals in the world. This will have huge repercussions. What does it tell us about the peer review . . . . Continue Reading »
The recent announcement that clueless Hollywood will make a biopic lionizing Jack Kevorkian got me looking back into my files about the ghoulish, unemployable pathologist. Even I had forgotten just how surreal that period in history was. In this NRO piece, citing his own words, I describe the . . . . Continue Reading »
Holy Cow! Now, Gerald Schatten, of the University of Pittsburgh, who quit Woo-Suk Hwang’s cloned stem cell banking venture over the egg issue, has cast tremendous doubt on the veracity of Hwang’s claims to have cloned human embryos and derived individualized embryonic stem cell lines . . . . Continue Reading »
Nigel Cameron and M. L. Tina Stevens weigh in subtantively in the San Francisco Chronicle on the ethical problem of exploiting women for their eggs in the human cloning enterprise. Another informative piece worth . . . . Continue Reading »
Richard Doerflinger nails it in this impressive NRO . . . . Continue Reading »
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