It looks like most of the Korean stem cell reports were falsified and/or exaggerated. But, the traditional lines are being drawn by the elitists who would define human beings as those who are "persons," and those who are not.

Bioethics.net.com:

""Doerflinger and other critics of stem-cell research are quick to forget about the merits of the science or the needs of the sick and to use the Korean scandal to impugn what their moral compass unerringly tells them must be abhorrent -- seeking to take stem cells out of human embryos made from a human egg and DNA from a skin cell.""

It's disingenuous to say that the cloned human embryos in question are an egg and a skin cell. And the editors don't appear to be aware of their own biases and too quick to claim bias on the part of Mr. Doerflinger.

As one of those in favor of stem cells as long as you don't kill someone - even an embryonic someone - it seems to me that the only source of an internal honesty or integrity are either the respect for fellow humans or the fear of punishment and humiliation. From the base of respect for other humans it's logical that Mr. Doerflinger and I would not approve of creating and killing human embryos for their parts.

We've had years of arguing the status of the human embryo and each scandal is worse than the last. But the limits keep being pushed for for some terrible, sad story. The last limit is now the justification for going beyond the next.

In the meantime, the results have been stolen embryos (UCalIrving, another one of Schatten's bad relationships), IVF specialists who use their own sperm to "help" their clients, and more human individuals excluded from the protection given to the currently defined "human persons."

The re-definition of humans to "persons" is the first lie.