The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) recently announced its “Guidelines for the Conduct of Embryonic Stem Cell Research.” The results are not encouraging.
The Guidelines claim to “emphasize the responsibility of scientists to ensure that human stem cell research is carried out according to rigorous standard of research ethics.” But saying it doesn’t make it so. What the document actually does is paste a veneer of ethical analysis on top of the “anything goes” mentality that suffuses biotechnology and mainstream bioethics today.
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