Don't you think this devastating statement by a "stem cell researcher," quoted by Kellmeyer, does more than merely hint at "fraud" ?
“People need a fairy tale,” said Ronald D.G. McKay, a stem cell researcher at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, “Maybe that’s unfair, but they need a story line that’s relatively simple to understand.”
I hardly think that researcher is "earnest." If you have quotes from other ESC researchers that shows their "earnestness," I'd like to see them.
As to whether Kellmeyer is "undoubtedly misrepresenting the scientific case," please provide your evidence for that.
I suggest you first read the links in post #25, the second of which is a recent article published in the Washington Post -- a publication certainly not "biased" to the right.
Kellmeyer misrepresents, and you seem to have missed, the proper context for the quote. McKay is not saying that the science itself is a "fairy tale." He thinks the science is valid and workable. What he's really saying is that the people with the money need something that will convince them to send money: the "fairy tale" in question is the description of some of the possible results of the research.