tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000891.post8931517772330019880..comments2024-02-21T19:56:57.057-08:00Comments on California Stem Cell Report: CIRM To Censor Confrontational Comments on its Facebook SiteDavid Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00077329461962729362noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000891.post-44840662171394683752009-04-10T21:18:00.000-07:002009-04-10T21:18:00.000-07:00The oblique reference to the Cha / Flamm matter is...The oblique reference to the Cha / Flamm matter is informative to the matter at hand. Flamm's primary concern was with one article co-authored by Cha which involved the impact of prayer on pregnancies through IVF. The Journal of Reproductive Medicine (JRM), which published the study (K.Y. Cha, D.P. Wirth, and R.A. Lobo, "Does prayer influence the success of in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer?" 46:781-787, 2001), not only refused to publish letters critical of it, they refused to even acknowledge their receipt. As months went by the JRM steadfastly refused to respond to e-mails, calls, or letters about the study. Wirth later went to federal prison [on an unrelated matter] and Lobo denied significant involvement in the JRM paper, but the paper remained, unretracted. Flamm got into trouble with Cha primarily for a remark about a DIFFERENT paper co-authored by Cha. <BR/>See for example <BR/>http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-on-bengu-sezen-rogerio-lobo-re.html<BR/><BR/>The better policy, as David Jensen suggests, is one of open discussion of issues. When dialog is suppressed, one wonders "why." As an aside, the '639 patent litigation illustrates how much money can be wasted when a simple error is not corrected.Lawrence B. Eberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05616776187293753324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000891.post-12268798036637352852009-04-10T12:47:00.000-07:002009-04-10T12:47:00.000-07:00Thank you, Don, for your comment. Bravo to CIRM fo...Thank you, Don, for your comment. Bravo to CIRM for leaving up that comment on the Lewis video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOcmq5mjV18&feature=channel_page<BR/>It was indeed harsh. The continuing presence (it first appeared yesterday) of that comment demonstrates that CIRM can survive without censoring confrontational language. <BR/><BR/>The problem with the Facebook page is that it puts the state of California in the position of telling readers that they cannot make comments like that on a taxpayer-funded Web site. The state should not be in the position of saying what can and cannot be said on important issues of the day.David Jensenhttp://californiastemcellreport.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000891.post-3721875637700743732009-04-10T11:31:00.000-07:002009-04-10T11:31:00.000-07:00Your ability to find negative in something positiv...Your ability to find negative in something positive never ceases to amaze me. If you had been diligent in reviewing all our social media and seen the dialogue that has taken place with a moral critic of embryonic stem cells on our YouTube site, you would not have written this speculative rubbish. That dialogue is linked off the Alan Lewis diabetes video.Don Gibbonsnoreply@blogger.com