The Island of Robert Klein? Contrary to what you may have read in the print media in November 2005 about LLDF’s litigation related to the stem cell program in California, and in particular the San Francisco Chronicle, the stem cell institute did not win a key ruling in opposition to the litigation challenging the constitutionality …
From the Executive Director: Stem Cell Program Does Not Win Key Ruling Read More »
Dana Cody The passing of President Reagan has driven the debate over stem cell research to the forefront of national attention. Scarcely had America heard the news of President Reagan’s passing when proponents of embryonic stem cell research launched an all-out media blitz capitalizing on the President’s struggle with Alzheimer’s as reason to support fetal …
From the Executive Director: No Loans for Clones! Read More »
Wesley J Smith Once again the media are trumpeting the call among many in Congress, pushed by millions in Big Biotech lobbying money, for President Bush to reverse his decision to limit federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research (ESCR) to those lines already in existence on August 9, 2001. Fronted this time by the grief-stricken Nancy …
The Wrong Tree: Embryonic Stem Cells are Not All That Read More »
Wesley J Smith The political games played by promoters of human cloning among scientists and biotechnology boosters have really gotten out of hand. The most recent example of their misleading polemics and obfuscation can be found in an editorial in the July 17, 2003, New England Journal of Medicine, in which the editor-in-chief promises that …
New England Journal of Politics: Medical Journal Crosses a Line Read More »
Wesley J Smith Senators Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) and Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) are two of the great legislative con artists of our time. Their bill— S. 303, the “Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Research Protection Act”—purports to outlaw human reproductive cloning, while explicitly authorizing “SCNT” (somatic-cell nuclear transfer) for the purpose of finding …
Wesley J Smith Stem cells are undifferentiated “master cells” in the body that can develop into differentiated tissues, such as bone, muscle, nerve, or skin. Stem cell research may lead to exponential improvements in treatment of many terminal and debilitating conditions, from cancer to Parkinson’s to Alzheimer’s to diabetes to heart disease. Indeed, breakthroughs in …
The Politics of Stem Cells: The Good News You Never Hear Read More »
Wesley J Smith Brave New World has arrived at last, as we always knew it would. On January 22, 2001, Britain’s House of Lords voted overwhelmingly to permit the cloning and maintenance of human embryos up to 14 days old for the purposes of medical experimentation, thereby taking the first terrible step toward the legalization …
