Good News Is No News Why the Media Ignores Adult Stem Cell Research BreakPoint with Charles Colson January 23, 2004 Wesley Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, recently spoke at an “educational symposium” to support a human cloning ban in Kentucky. At the symposium, Smith and his fellow scholars discussed the ethical and scientific problems with embryonic stem cell research, which creates cloned humans for the purpose of harvesting cells. But they also spent nearly forty-five minutes talking about “exciting” developments in the “morally non-controversial” field of adult stem cell research. And they had plenty to talk about....