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Commentary
August 2010
Inconvenient stem cell facts
(The Examiner)
Playing Politics with Stem Cells
(American Thinker)
June 2009
Embryonic Research Driven by Greed, not Science
(Michael Fumento)
Decades Away: The Dirty Secret of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
(Michael Fumento)
March 2009
The President Politicizes Stem-Cell Research
(Wall Street Journal)
Why Embryonic Stem Cells Are Obsolete
(US News)
May 2008
Embryonic Stem Cells 2.0
(Nature)
April 2008
What comes after iPS?
(Nature)
Stem cell chimeras
(Guardian Unlimited)
March 2008
New, Moral Approach to Stem Cell Research
(The Cowl)
February 2008
Where's The Stem Celebration?
(Investor's Business Daily)
December 2007
In Yet Another Stem-Cell Miracle, Dems Have Dropped The Subject
(Investors)
November 2007
Stem Cell Vindication
(Washington Post)
Stem-Cell Success Story
(National Review Online)
October 2007
Doubling Down on Stem Cells
(National Review Online)
Moral, fiscal objections to stem-cell referendum
(Home News Tribune)
Don't buy the hype on stem cell
(North Jersey)
Korean stem-cell researchers focus on the clinic
(Nature)
Alternative energy for embryonic stem cell research
(Nature)
Missouri Manipulation: Don't get conned on cloning
(National Review Online)
August 2007
Danforth used disingenuous language to advance embryonic stem cell research agenda
(STLtoday)
July 2007
Ethical stem cell research progresses
(News-Leader)
Australia: New science leaves cloning as dead as Dolly
(On Line Opinion)
June 2007
Women carry cloning burden
(Daily Telegraph)
A Stem-Cell Solution
(National Review Online)
Cloning by any other name is still cloning
(Jewish World Review)
Stem cells and moral preening
(Washington Times)
Stem-Cell Politics, Then and Now
(contentions)
Patients, Not Politics: Support ethical stem-cell research that works
(National Review Online)
Real Stem-Cell News
(National Review Online)
May 2007
Do research without embryonic stem cells
(Statesman Journal)
Standing up for the most vulnerable
(Minnesota Daily)
April 2007
Cure shouldn't come at cost of degrading value of human life
(RGJ.com)
Missing the Point
(National Review Online)
Nascent Falsehood
(National Review Online)
Australia: Biotech leaders can still honor ethics
(The Age)
March 2007
Cloning Doubletalk
(Weekly Standard)
Stem cell bill covers ethical bases; pass it
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Six Stem Cell Facts
(Wall Street Journal)
Should Parents Consider Banking Baby's Umbilical Cord Blood?
(Daily Herald)
February 2007
Troubled Iowa Dreams
(National Review)
January 2007
An Easy Cell
(The American)
A Middle Ground for Stem Cells
(New York Times)
The NY Times Stem Cell Coverup
(Michael Fumento)
Embryonic Backers Selling a Fairy Tale
(Tennessean)
Science Obviates Politics
(New York Sun)
Stem Cell Fight Requires Perseverance
(Human Events)
December 2006
Empty Hope Of Stem Cell Science
(New York Sun)
What We Know About Embryonic Stem Cells
(First Things)
The Great Stem Cell Error
(American Spectator)
Australia: Cloning a nightmare from the past
(Herald Sun)
Falling Behind?
(National Review Online)
November 2006
Australia: Cloning not path to cures
(The Daily Telegraph)
Calling a clone a clone
(Orlando Sentinel)
Red Flags Over Missouri
(NRO)
October 2006
Doctors should be angry about Amendment 2
(News-Leader.com)
Embryonic stem cell research fails in many ways to reader
(Times Leader)
Stem Cell Logic
(MercatorNet)
September 2006
Bank for cord blood needs more donors
(San Antonio Express-News)
"Embryo-Safe" Experiment Just another Stem Cell Fraud
(Townhall)
Adult cells are behind much of stem cell success so far
(JSOnline)
Stem Cell Politics: Divide and Conquer
(Human Events)
August 2006
Interview with UK Researcher: Dr. Peter Hollands (LifeSite)
Part 1 - Cord
Blood Real Potential for Cures, Not Embryonic Stem Cells
Part 2 -
Embryonic Stem Cells Have Never Been Used to Treat Anyone and no Plans Exist
to do so
Slippery slope: Inflated science claims equal $$
(MSNBC)
Right under our noses
(Courier-Mail)
Moral Equivalent of a Parkinson's Patient?
(Washington Times)
Infertile Minds: Behold The Voices Of "Science"
(Post Chronicle)
Destroying life: An end in itself?
(Tidings)
July 2006
Leo: Stem cell research is a slippery slope
(Milford Daily News)
President Discusses Stem Cell Research Policy
(White House)
Ethical Alternatives
(National Review)
Science Gets Duped Again
(Ethics And Public Policy Center)
Anti-Life, Anti-Science
(National Review)
Science's Stem-Cell Scam
(National Review)
June 2006
Crossing Line on Cloning for Stem Cells
(Boston Globe)
Stem Cell Spin
(The New Atlantis)
Veritas? Harvard's Stem Cell Initiative
(CBHD)
Cell Research Support at Catholic Hospitals
(The Jersey Journal)
May 2006
Stem Cell Research Would Enrich Biotech Industry
(Columbia Tribune)
Stem-Cell Sense -- Clear thinking on a stem-cell anniversary
(National Review Online)
Celling Spin
(National Review)
April 2006
From Embryonic Stem Cell Support to Its Opposition
Ongoing Series from SCI activist James Kelly "Stem
Cells: Changing a Personal Course"
(Seoul Times)
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
February 2006
"That Thing in a Petri Dish"
- National Review Online
January 2006
Adult Stem Cell "Failure" — A Closer Look
James P. Kelly - The Seoul Times
Embryonic Stem Cells Help Patents, Not Patients
Jean Swenson - The Pioneer Press
December 2005
Cut the Political Cord
Kathryn Jean Lopez - National Review Online
Cloning Chaos
- National Review Online
The Truth Behind the N.J. Stem "Sell" Agenda
Marie Tasy - Home News Tribune
To Clone or Not to Clone
Michael Cook - Mercator.net
November 2005
Catholic Support for Ethically Acceptable Stem Cell Research
Richard Doerflinger - UCCB
October 2005
Raise a Glass to Adult Stem Cells
Michael Fumento - TCS
Live Patients & Dead Mice:
The little-known story of the stem cells that actually
work.
David A. Prentice - Christianity Today
September 2005
Stem Cells of Hope, Not Hype, are Curing People
- The Hill
Stem-Cell Bill Rests on 'False Hope'
- The Hill
August 2005
On Embryonic Stem Cells, Frist Backs A Loser
Michael Fumento - TCS
July 2005
Embryonic Stem Cell Fairy Tales
Jean Swenson - MN Daily
Stem Cell Tales of Hope and Hype
Jean Swenson - Townhall.com
June 2005
Why the Media Miss the Stem-Cell Story
Michael Fumento - Citizen Magazine
Contrary to Popular Assumption
Wesley Smith - tothesource
May 2005
Stem Cell Hysteria
Nigel M. de S. Cameron - AlwaysOn
Stem the Tide of Unethical Embryonic Research
Mary Beliveau - York Daily Record
Embryo Destruction Bill Advances the Culture of Death
Matt Sande - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Raising the Stakes
Steve Chapman - Chicago Tribune
Killing Embryos Not Progress
Cardinal William H. Keeler - USA Today
Promise of Miracles a False One
Michael Cook - The Australian
Juvenile Diabetes Patients Need Real Hope, Not Hype and False Promises
Embryonic stem cells are not the Path to cures. Rather, it is adult stem Cells that give real hope - DoNoHarm
USCCB Poll: Most Americans Oppose Federal Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
A majority of Americans, 52 percent, oppose federal funding of embryonic stem cell research while just 36 percent support it, according to a new poll commissioned by the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops - USCCB Press Release
April 2005
It Didn't Start With Dolly
Wesley J. Smith - Weekly Standard
March 2005
Brownback, Kennedy Introduce Prenatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act
Senator Sam Brownback - brownback.senate.gov
Letter to the Maryland State Senate
Eight members of the President's Council on Bioethics have, as individuals, signed a letter to the Maryland Senate urging defeat of that state's proposal to fund embryonic stem cell and cloning research. The letter was hand-delivered to all state senators' offices on March 31, 2005. - Click here to read the letter
Stem-Cell Basics
Nancy Frazier O'Brien - The Tidings
Diabetes Foundation Loses its Way
Michael Fumento - Please Note: Mr. Fumneto is a regular contributor to the Scripps Howard News Service. Despite this fact, Scripps Howard has refused to run this column. The author says he has reason to believe this is because of opposition expressed by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to Scripps Howard, urging them not to run this column. According to Mr. Fumento," JDRF contacted Scripps Howard about this column without ever having seen it and before Scripps had even received it"
Deceptive Data Used For Stem-Cell Research
Dorothy Vining - News Times
Remember Then, Now
Christine Rosen - National Review Online
February 2005
Embryonic Stem Cell Research Will Offer No 'Advance' for Society
John Morris - The Business Journal Kansas City
Embryonic Stem Cell Research as an Obsession
Donald R. May - Townhall.com
Myths Of Stem Cell Research Require Closer Look At Facts
Peter J. Cataldo - Free Press
Stemming Stem Cell Research
Cal Thomas - Tribune Media
Beginning of The End for Embryonic Stem Cell Research?
Michael Fumento - Tech Central Station
An Embryo Is A Human Being
Elaine Shay - Hartford Courant
January 2005
Cord Blood a Child's Insurance Policy
Kristi O'Harran - Herald Net
December 2004
A Stem Cell Tale
Wesley J. Smith - Weekly Standard
Shift Focus To Adult Stem Cells
Toni Meyer - Home News Tribune
The Adult Answer
Michael Fumento - National Review Online
Science vs. Ideology
Editorial Board - Investor's Business Daily
Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy 'Morally Unacceptable'
Josephine Quintavalle - BBC
In Tissue Engineering, Embryonic Stem Cells Might Not Be The Way To Go
Charles Vacanti - The Scientist
October 2004
The Wrong Path
James Kelly - National Review Online
Differentiating Stem-Cell Research Fact from Fiction
Jean Swensen - St. Paul Pioneer Press
An Edwards Outrage
Charles Krauthammer - The Washington Post
No Doubting Reeve's Courage, but Question His Convictions
Michael Cook - The Age
We Should Fear the Disturbing Future Where Man Becomes Superman
Michael Gove - The Times
The Big Lie
Robert P. George - National Review Online
Playing Politics With the Sick
Leon Kass - The Washington Post
California's Questionable Stem-Cell Proposal
Richard M. Doerflinger - Do No Harm
September 2004
The "Wrong" Cure
Wesley J. Smith - National Review Online
Celling Out the Truth
Steve Forbes - Forbes.com
Human Being, or Source of Spare Parts?
Edward R. Koucheravy - The Washington Post
August 2004
Don't Ignore Stem-Cell Issue
Raymond J. Keating - NewsDay
Fetuses Have Full Rights Too
Paul Kokoski - Taipei Times
Republicans and the Relics of Barbarism
Robert P. George & William L. Saunders - National Review
California's Other Senator
Wesley J. Smith - The Daily Standard
Senseless on Stem Cells
Hadley Arkes - National Review
The Party of Cloning
Eric Cohen - The Weekly Standard
His Stem-Cell Moderation Hurts Bush
Ramesh Ponnuru - The Los Angeles Times
The Misleading Debate on Stem Cell Research
Mona Charen - Townhall.com
Out of Touch
Michael Fumento - Citizen Magazine
Whose Afraid Of The Big Bad Adult Stem Cells?
Robert E. Meyer - American Daily
Why Lines Must Be Drawn
Charles Krauthammer - Time
Hyping Stem Cell Politics
by Ramesh Ponnuru - Tech Central Station
The Prop. 71 Stem Cell Scam: Interview with Wesley J. Smith
by Sheryl Henderson Blunt - Christianity Today
Public Must Be Aware of Candidates' True Views on Stem Cell Research
Editorial Board Portsmouth Herald
A Stem-Cell Defection
by Ramesh Ponnuru - National Review Online
‘Healing' via Human Sacrifice
by Kelly J. Hollowell - World Net Daily
Casualties of the Stem Cell Campaign
by Richard M. Doerflinger - US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Cloning by Any Other Name Still Smells
by Terence Jeffrey - Townhall.com
Revelation of the Nerds: The Religion of Stem Cell Research
by William Saletan - Slate
Stem Cell Difference
by Michael Fumento - The New York Post
No Controversy with Adult Stem Cells
by Ellen Curtin - The Cincinnati Enquirer
Use Adult Stem Cells Instead
by Eleanor Heinis, RN - Bristol Herald Courier
July 2004
A "Quixotic Quest"
by Jonathan Imbody - The Washington Times
Kerry's Zealotry
by Eric Cohen - The Daily Standard
Cynical and Cruel: Ron Reagan's DNC Speech was Exploitation…of His Father and of Science
by Michael Fumento - National Review Online
Letter to US Congress: Support Adult Stem Cells
from 2164 Medical Professionals - CMDA
Snake Oil: Ron Reagan's Dishonest Presentation
by Robert P. George - National Review
The C-Word: Ron Reagan Seduces by Changing the Terms of the Stem Cell Debate
by Wesley J. Smith - National Review
Ron's Moment: Stem Cell Delusions
by Ramesh Ponnuru - National Review
What Would Reagan Do?
by Francis Beckwith - The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
Ron Reagan Wrong on Stem Cells
by Steven Milloy - Fox News
Legislating Medicine: California's Bizarre Cloning Proposition
by Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Jennifer Lahl - San Francisco Chronicle
June 2004
I'm With My Dad on Stem Cell Research
by Michael Reagan - Human Events
Nancy and Ron (Santo) are Both Wrong on Embryonic Stem Cell Research
by Daniel McConchie - The Illinois Leader
Of Stem Cells and Fairy Tales
by Wesley J. Smith - The Daily Standard
Cell Wars
by Wesley J. Smith - National Review Online
Hard Cell
by Ramesh Ponnuru - National Review Online
A Bad Investment
by Wesley J. Smith - National Review Online
May 2004
Inflated Promise, Distorted Facts
by Eric Cohen - National Review Online
The Stem Cell Cover-Up
by Michael Fumento - Insight
The Politics of Bioethics: Playing Defense is Not Enough
by Eric Cohen and William Kristol - The Weekly Standard
April 2004
A Letter to Members of Congress in Response to a Letter Advocating Expanded ESC Research Funding
by Richard M. Doerflinger, US Conference of Catholic Bishops - Do No Harm
Sweet Banquet of the Mind Turns Sour
by Sydney Smith - Tech Central Statement
March 2004
Key Question for Research on Human Embryos Is Whether It Is Moral
by Bryan Dowd And Chris Macosko - Star Tribune
Cloning: Between Hype and Hope
by James Kelly - Manitou Magazine
Juvenile Diabetes Patients Need Real Hope, Not Hype
from Do No Harm
February 2004
Debate Needs Dose of Reality, Morality
by Cardinal William H. Keeler - The Baltimore Sun
Human Cloning in Korea: Does Medicine Have No Moral Limits?
by Robert Mohler Jr. - Crosswalk.com
Researchers Look to Stem Cell Therapy and Bone Marrow Transplants to Find a Cure for Diabetes
in American Society of Hematology
January 2004
Study: Adult Mamalian Cells Can Dedifferentiate and then Redifferentiate
in Journal of the American Chemical Society (PDF)
UPDATED: Current State Laws on Human Cloning
from U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
PR: Bishops' Official Condemns New State "Fetus Farm" Law
from US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Study on Spleen Cells Curing Diabetes
in Nature Reviews
Adult Stem Cells Cure Diabetes in Mice
in Science
November 2003
Address of John Paul II to the Members of the Pontifical Academy of
Sciences (regarding embryonic stem cell research)
from The Vatican
October 2003
The Therapeutic Promise of Nonembryonic Stem Cells—Where's the Beef?
by Dennis English and Marc A. Williams - Journal of Hematotherapy & Stem Cell Research (PDF)
August 2003
Has Experimenting on Human Life Lost Its Power to Disgust?
by Matthew Cook - The Age
July 2003
New England Journal of Politics: Medical Journal Crosses a Line
by Wesley J. Smith - National Review Online
Stop Therapeutic Cloning
by Matthew du Mée Peoria - Arizona Republic
AMA Approves Creating Life for Destructive Purposes
by Samuel D. Hensley, MD - The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
May 2003
Stem Cell Research Fights Terrorism
by Dennis O. Rodgerson, PhD - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Superior Stem Cells
by Jonathan Imbody - The Washington Post
April 2003
The Battle of the Ban
by Tom Hess - Focus on the Family
March 2003
Practical Help: Adult Stem Cells Break Through
by Wesley J. Smith - National Review Online
Refute the Lie, Don't Clone It
by James Kelly - Do No Harm
Reality Check: Proof of "Therapeutic" Cloning?
by Gene Tarne - Do No Harm
February 2003
Concluding Communiqué on the "Ethics of Biomedical Research: For a Christian Vision"
from Pontifical Life Academy
Small Facts About Stem Cells
by Marie-Louise Labat, et al. - World Federation of the Catholic Medical Associations
January 2003
Christopher Reeve and Bob Carr Dehumanise Disability
by Erik Leipoldt, et. al. - OnlineOpinion.com
Plastic Adult Stem Cells: Will They Graduate From the School of Hard Knocks?
by Malcom R. Alison, et. al. - Journal of Cell Science
Spare Embryos
by Gilbert Meilaender - Weekly Standard
October 2002
Christopher Reeve Misinformed about Cloning, Embryonic Stem Cell Research?
by James Kelly - The Washington Times
September 2002
Celling Lies: More Spurious Stem-Cell Claims
by Michael Fumento - National Review Online
Stem Cells and the Human Embryo
by Linda K. Bevington - The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
April 2002
Adult Stem Cell Research Holds More Scientific Promise for Cures
by Jim Kelly - Detroit News
A Response to Senator Connie Mack on Human Cloning
by Jim Kelly - Do No Harm
Spinning Stem Cells
by Wesley Smith - National Review Online
March 2002
Stem-Cell Political Science
by Michael Fumento - National Review Online
January 2002
The Case for Adult Stem Cell Research
by Wolfgang Lillge, MD - 21st Century Science and Technology
November 2001
Federally Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Bush and Beyond?
by Linda K. Bevington - The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
Stem Cells and Our Moral Culture
by Dennis P. Hollinger - The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
August 2001
Bush Cell-Out
by Charlotte Allen - National Review Online
The President Should Have Consulted Solomon
by C. Ben Mitchell - The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
The Principle's the Thing
by Michael Novak - National Review Online
Symposium: Did Bush Do the Right Thing?
by Kathryn Jean Lopez - National Review Online
July 2001
Only Human
by Andrew Sullivan - New Republic
The Stubborn Facts of Science
by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George - National Review Online
A New Modest Proposal
by Gene Edward Veith - World
Old MacDonald Had an Embryo Pharm: E, I, E, I, Oh?
C. Ben Mitchell - The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
Cells, Fetuses, and Logic
by Ramesh Ponnuru - National Review
Short on Facts
by Michael Fumento - National Review Online
Blowing Smoke in Stem Cell Research
by Wesley J. Smith - National Review Online
Politics Trumps Science
by Wesley J. Smith - National Review Online
Letter to Ruth Kirschstein, Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health
by Gene Tarne - Do No Harm
The Dilemma of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
by Tom P. Dooley, PhD, President, Biotechnology Association of Alabama - DrTomDooley.com
Note: Dr. Dooley has resigned as President of the Biotechnology Association of Alabama over its support of embryonic stem cell research and cloning.