Another Cloning "Breakthrough": The World's First Phony Stem Cells

Wesley Smith is the first to make the argument that I had expected to hear 24 hours a day after the Hwang Woo-suk scandal started: that it is nuclear transfer research itself, not scientific misconduct, that is at the core of the bioethics issues in the South Korea fraud. Written for the Weekly Standard, his piece asks a variety of interesting questions about not only how the scandal happened but about what it says about bioethics' "spin." Whether you agree or disagree with Smith about the matter, his piece is as coherent as this argument will withstand, and it needs to be heard and debated.