Category: Embryonic Stem Cells

International Society for Stem Cell Research Endorses Fetal Farming

By Right to Life of Michigan After much anticipation, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) updated their guidelines on human embryo research limits. It’s worse than some speculated; instead, it’s a full-throated endorsement of “fetal farming.” The ISSCR isn’t a government or legal body, but many stem cell researchers go along with these guidelines, …

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New York to Stop Funding Embryonic-Stem-Cell Research

By Wesley J. Smith Oh, the screaming we heard about embryonic stem cells during the George W. Bush presidency. Those who opposed wide-open federal funding were branded “anti-science,” and delusional for claiming that adult stem cells offered the better promise of treatments. The media pushed the tripe that people who supported Bush’s very modest funding restrictions didn’t want …

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$5.5 Billion Stem-Cell-Funding Measure Qualifies for California Ballot

By Wesley J. Smith  Back in 2004, Californians voted to borrow $3 billion to pay for embryonic stem-cell and human-cloning research — that the media and Democrats falsely claimed * President George W. Bush banned   — with the promise of CURES! CURES! CURES!  The media were all in because the agenda of the day …

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The Failure of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

By John Stonestreet & G. Shane Morris I certainly don’t recommend the cartoon “Family Guy,” but in a 2012 episode the main character, Peter Griffin, has a stroke that paralyzes half his body. He stumbles into a stem cell research lab and is cured in five minutes. “Why aren’t we funding this?” he asks. Well, …

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California’s stem cell institute may close doors

By Michael Cook The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has announced that it can no longer accept grant applications. There is no more money in the cookie jar. The CIRM was set up in 2004 after 59% of California voters approved a $3 billion bond issue to support human embryonic stem cell research. The …

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Will California Voters Be Stem-Cell Suckered Again?

By Wesley J. Smith Back in 2004, the university-biotech complex and its camp followers in the media and Hollywood convinced California voters to borrow $3 Billion to establish the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Its purpose was to pay for embryonic stem-cell and human-cloning research over which the federal-government imposed funding restrictions. The campaign …

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Is the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine worth it?

By Michael Cook In 2004 California voted 59% to 41% for Proposition 71, an amendment to the state constitution which would create the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine through a $3 billion bond issue. Interest added another $3 billion to the bill. Now the CIRM’s funding has nearly run out and its supporters plan to …

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California Stem-Cell Agency Wants More Voter Money

By Wesley J. Smith The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was a multi-billion dollar money suck agreed to by California voters in 2004 as a way to “resist Bush” about embryonic stem-cell research. The mendacious campaign promised Cures! Cures! Cures! with embryonic stem cells and therapeutic human cloning — even promising that disabled children …

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Stem cell hucksters back for more cash

By Right to Life of Michigan The CIRM was to be the great hope for cures for millions of Americans suffering from incurable diseases. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine was created by 59 percent of California voters in 2004 and given $3 billion in tax dollars to pursue cures by killing human embryos and …

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“Shamelessly oversold,” CIRM has funded just a trickle of clinical trials in hunt for stem cell therapies

By Michael Cook The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine [CIRM] was created in 2004 after voters overwhelmingly supported a $3 billion bond issue to pay for stem cell cures. President George W. Bush had just restricted federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research to cells derived from embryos that had already been destroyed and …

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Embryonic Stem Cell Hype Was Just that: Hype

By Wesley J. Smith When George W. Bush put federal funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, the media and “the scientists” screamed that he was “anti-science” and that he was destroying the “only hope” for CURES! CURES! CURES! When supporters of Bush’s policy, and opponents of embryonic stem cell research on ethical and scientific …

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Have embryonic stem cells hit the wall?

By Michael Cook “Will Embryonic Stem Cells Ever Cure Anything?” is a skeptical headline which you would expect to read in a conservative journal like the National Review or the Weekly Standard. However, it is a bit surprising to find it in the MIT Technology Review, in a profile of Douglas Melton, a Harvard stem …

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