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Opinion: Stem cell clinics ripping off patients
No one likes a bully. Intimidation is a rotten way to get what you want. Yet that's what some in the stem cell therapy industry are trying to do to a group of scientists trying to speak up about the often fraudulent nature of their business, writes bioethicist Art Caplan.
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Arthur Caplan

Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania

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