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By Dave Andrusko A report in today’s Guardian newspaper is just the latest evidence that when researchers are compelled to find stem cells sources other than human embryos, they benefit twice over. First, since human embryonic stem cells have no proven track record to...
By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. This is excerpted from a post at Wesley’s terrific blog which is now located at www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/328843/hyping-embryonic-stem-cells-its-2004 I thought we were finally finished with all the hype over...
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. There is still time to register for the National Right to Life convention June 28-30 and to reserve a hotel room at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia. Just go to www.nrlconvention.org. A friend who knows of my...
By Wesley J. Smith “Victim celebrities,” Ralph Nader calls them, by which he means, people who have been victimized by an abusive act or policy. They often make the best political activists against it because they bring the principle down to the personal level. But...
By Dave Andrusko http://twitter.com/daveha National Right to Life President and Pro-Life Perspective host Carol Tobias uses the Tuesday edition of PLP to applaud the work of Dr. David Prentice of the Family Research Council. No one has done more to dispel the myths...
By Wesley J. Smith Wesley J. SmithThe sense of entitlement of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine [CIRM] and its supporters would choke a cow. California is about to run out of cash!–and its supporters worry that it might lose the ability to borrow...
By Wesley J. Smith Hype over embryonic stem cell research has been maddening. The media bias, extreme. And many in elected office, intent on using the sector as a special interest source of campaign funds–and believing the cures meme–have been decidedly uninterested...
By Wesley J. Smith This is unbelievable–except it isn’t: A front page story in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, headlined “Keeping Hope Alive,” purportedly concerns local young woman named Katie Sharify, who was the last patient to receive Geron’s now defunct ESCR...
By Dave Andrusko My wife and I are from Minnesota and both attended the University of Minnesota. As a graduate student I wrote for the Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper. Therefore, even if both the University and the Daily did not deluge me with fundraising...
By Dave Andrusko Over the past three weeks we’ve discussed the fall-out from Geron Corporation’s decision to get out of the embryonic stem cell research business altogether, despite knowledge that there would likely be more government aid. The company looked at its...