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By Dave Andrusko When last we visited the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the CIRM was under tremendous pressure to become more “accountable” and more “transparent,” especially when it came to what pro-life bioethicist Wesley Smith has called...
By Wesley J. Smith James Watson, the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix demonstrated that just because one is a brilliant scientist, that doesn’t mean he or she is also a good ethicist. [Editor’s note. Wesley links to an interview Watson gave in which Watson showed...
By Dave Andrusko For years, bioethicist Wesley J. Smith has kept close tabs on the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, established after voters in 2004 approved a state ballot initiative, Proposition 71, which funded embryonic stem cell/human cloning...
By Wesley J. Smith Here’s how the pro embryonic stem cell/human cloning advocacy game is played. First, the public faces of patients and their loved ones promise CURES! CURES! CURES! Then, when you call the campaign on the mendacity, they claim, “The scientists have...
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 I have attached two outstanding reviews of a new “breakthrough” study the results of which are grossly misrepresented, of no use, and highly unethical. I’m referring to Paul Stark’s “A breakthrough in embryo-destructive research?” and Wesley Smith’s...
State law now allows the use of tax dollars for unethical cloning research ST. PAUL – Since July 1, 2011, Minnesota state law has permitted the use of taxpayer funds for human cloning. Such research is unethical, deeply unpopular among the people of Minnesota, and...
Editor’s note. This appears on the blog of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life. The Minnesota House DFL caucus has linked to a document (uploaded by Carrie Lucking, who works for the caucus) titled "What you need to know about the 2011 legislative session." It...
Funding ban passed, vetoed, then excluded in special session negotiations ST. PAUL — The State of Minnesota is now involved in the human cloning business. After the state Legislature failed to re-authorize a ban on state funded human cloning during the special...
By David Prentice The reintroduction of a bill for federal taxpayer support of human embryonic stem cell research by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), will waste taxpayer funds on unworthy science and possibly delay...