My Boss Goes Ballistic on the Embryonic Stem Cell Lobby

Stem Cell Guy's boss - Don Margolis, has been to known to rant in the office about the embryonic stem cell lobby. To put it mildly, he is not a big fan, but he has always been able to hold it back so the public couldn't see.

I guess he couldn't keep it bottled up anymore because the founder of Theravitae, which is responsible for Vescell- adult stem cell therapy for heart disease - the one man responsible for helping over 100 patients suffering from coronary artery disesase (ischemic heart disease), cardiomyopathy, and congestive heart failure- sounded off to the media recently.

Here is the teaser--

SUMMARY: The public are being misled by propaganda emanating from vested interest groups determined to keep buried the fact that many patients with failing hearts can be helped by adult stem cells right now.

BANGKOK, Thailand, 11 January 2007 –The retired founder of international biotechnology company TheraVitae, Mr. Don Margolis, has attacked what he calls “media lies and distortions” about adult stem cells. “The American media has been fed multiple lies by embryonic fanatics at the highest levels of American medicine and even doctors are being misled.”

Read the whole thing or you can email the star of this article at coo@theravitae.com . He would love to hear from you.