Expert Commentaries

James L. Sherley is a stem cell biologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a graduate of Harvard who writes in The Boston Globe that the Harvard Institutional Review Board decision to “enter the race to be first to produce embryonic stem cells from cloned human embryos” is both scientifically unsupportable and immoral. “The members of Harvard's review board should fear the temptations of the line they're crossing, reconsider their decision, and withdraw from a race that will occur on a track littered with innocent human lives.”

To read the entire commentary by James L. Sherley, click here.
Boston Globe

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Eric Cohen is a fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and editor of the ethics and technology journal The New Atlantis.

In this commentary entitled “Embryonic Problems,” first published in the national Review, George and Cohen highlight the scientific and ethical problems of embryonic stem cell research and say the South Korean cloning scandal perpetrated by Dr. Hwang Woo Suk offers a good opportunity to rethink stem-cell research.

To read the entire commentary by Robert P. George and Eric Cohen, click here.
National Review Online

James P. Kelly serves as biotech writer for The Seoul Times and is the director of the Cures 1st Foundation, Inc. in the US. As a paralyzed American research advocate, Director Kelly promotes practical research for the sake of treatments and cures. Kelly’s ongoing series details his journey from embryonic stem cell advocate to opponent.

To read the ongoing series from James Kelly entitled, "Stem Cells: Changing a Personal Course" (Seoul Times) click here.
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Michael Fumento is an accomplished science writer known for his work in debunking popular myths perpetuated by the Media. Fumento writes extensively on the stem cell issue and his latest piece entitled "Embryonic Stem Cell Hucksters Exploit Paralysis" takes the news media and embryonic stem cell advocates to task, accusing the latter of “knowingly lying” to paralysis victims.

Click here to read this commentary, Embryonic Stem Cell Hucksters Exploit Paralysis (Townhall, March 29, 2006) or click on www.fumento.com for more of his commentaries.

To find more commentaries about stem cell research, log onto www.stemcellresearch.org, the web site of the Do No Harm Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics, or The Center For Bioethics & Human Dignity at www.cbhd.org.