Slate withdraws "The Celltex Affair."
By David Plotz|Posted Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, at 9:43 PM ET
On Feb. 17, 2012, Slate published an article titled “The Celltex Affair: An Ethics Scandal Strikes the World of Bioethics.” Because of shortcomings in the editorial process, the article did not meet Slate’s standards for verification and fairness and should not have been published. We withdraw the article and apologize to Dr. Glenn McGee.
Reminds me of the Stan Kutcher incident with the Halifax newspaper retraction a while back...
Slate pulled this article already posted on this blog: "The Celltex Affair" by Carl Elliott "An ethics scandal strikes the world of bioethics"
This is a must read by Carl Elliott via SLATE:"The stem-cell tourism industry is not exactly renowned for ethical probity, much less scientific rigor. Given its reputation for peddling untested remedies to desperate patients, not to mention its starring role in several sting operations on 60 Minutes, a few eyebrows went up when one of the nation's leading journals of medical ethics relocated to the offices of a commercial stem cell clinic in Sugar Land, Texas. In December, the editor of the American Journal of Bioethics, a man called Glenn McGee, took up a new job with Celltex Therapeutics as its president for ethics and strategic initiatives. He now works for a new business venture..."
** Addendum Glenn McGee resigned from Celltex Glenn McGee resigns effective 2.28.12.
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