Secondhand Smoke: Your 24/7 Seminar on Bioethics and the Importance of Being Human: Geron Touts Pending Human Trial of ESCR--Again and Again and Again and Again

Secondhand Smoke: Your 24/7 Seminar on Bioethics and the Importance of Being Human

This Blog considers assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, radical environmentalism, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. My views expressed here, as in my books and other writings, reflect my understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: human life matters. (The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.)

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Geron Touts Pending Human Trial of ESCR--Again and Again and Again and Again

Geron has issued the latest in a long series of press releases claiming that it will soon be applying to the FDA for permission to conduct human trials of a medical trial created with ESCR. Why this is news beats me. As I have pointed out previously, it has been making the very same claim for years, to wit:

Today

November 13, 2007

Some suggestion of a pending request was also strongly implied as far back as 2002.

This is not to say that this will be another false alarm. But it is to say that perhaps the media should be a little skeptical and report about the many false starts that Geron has previously made.

HT: David Prentice

Labels: Geron. ESCR Human Testing