"60 Minutes" last night had a story on someone with a revoked medical license who was selling human stem cells from ecuador by mail saying that it could cure all kinds of diseases and othe chronic conditions. "60 minutes" interviewed experts who said none of this was true. Then they tricked the ex-doctor to come to Florida and meet parents of an 11 year old boy with cerebral palsy. Then the 60 minutes man (Scott Pelly?) came in and started asking hard questions. The "doctor" said there was all kinds of literature in other countries stating that it worked. He stated that there was a conspiracy of drug companies in the USA that prevented it from being published in the USA. When asked what published papers in reputable journals, he could not come up with any. When asked how it works, he stumbled for a while and then said that no one knows. He claimed expertise in stem cells by being self-taught, apparently from reading the non-existent literature. I suppose the question is what percent is this guy deluded vs. simply a con artist.

60 minutes had previosly ordered stem cells from the Ecuador lab, which were air-shipped in a special container that 60 minutes arranged with liquid nitrogen, and a monitor to make sure there was no thaw, and the cells were examined at a university (Duke?). The cells were dead and fragmented and very dangerous to inject.

Regular posters here will know why I posted this.

Chris