Wesley J. Smith

Richard Doerflinger nails it in this impressive NRO . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a potentially tremendous story: bone marrow stem cells have been discovered in mice that have been changed into many types of body tissues. It won’t matter to the pro cloners who will just shrug their shoulders and keep on cloning. But it will matter to the rest of society. I have long . . . . Continue Reading »

This isn’t a first, but it is a continuing effort. Researchers have used stem cells to create a mouse with human brain cells in its brain. The amount is minute, but it begs an important question that isn’t even close to the public discourse front burner: How much human DNA into an animal . . . . Continue Reading »

The smoke is billowing ever thicker at Woo-Suk Hwang’s cloning lab. There are now charges being made by a subordinate and published in the Korean media that Hwang falsified some of the data he published. His university is now insisting on independent verification. Again, I have no idea if it . . . . Continue Reading »

I received this correspondence from a reader about my piece in the Daily Standard exposing the bias-by-omission of the media when failing to fully and accurately describe what is entailed in therapeutic cloning:“The deliberate confusion in terminology by commercial interests regarding cloning . . . . Continue Reading »

As I wrote this week in the Weekly Standard, the uncontroversial umbilical cord blood stem cell bill is ready to be passed. Senator Frist has unanimous consent among Republicans to get it to the floor for a vote, but one or more unnamed Democrat senators are obstructing. According to the National . . . . Continue Reading »

So, the UK government has stated that the NHS may refuse medical treatment for smokers and the obese if their conditions might mean the treatment would be less efficacious or not cost effective. This is neo Puritanism. Following this logic, people with multiple sex partners should not be treated for . . . . Continue Reading »

Now, South Korean academics at Woo-Suk Hwang’s own university want independent verification that he actually created cloned human embryos and extracted tissue-specific embryonic stem cells from them. Earlier this week, Hwang’s lab said that there would be no independent verification . . . . Continue Reading »

Not bad for a time in which the country is supposedly being led by anti-science . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a good article on the potential of adult blood stem cells to treat heart disease. I am glad it was reported by Time. But I can’t help gnashing my teeth at the bad science reporting that is epidemic in the mainstream media about embryonic stem cells, to wit: “Unlike other . . . . Continue Reading »