How awesome is this! A top dog in the UK involved with ethical standards in stem cell reasearch is lambasting Premier Brown and the Bermuda government over the Brown-Darrell Stem Cell Clinic. And the top dog just happens to be a... Bermudian!!!

http://www.theroyalgazette.com/siftology.royalgazette/Article/article.jsp?articleId=7d793c330030000&sectionId=117

I have some friends in the field and when I first asked them if they were familiar with Stemedica they all said no. After looking at the various web-sites that the company has up they said it looked shady.

And who says we dont have any super duper Bermudians working in some serious fields.

Actually have to give credit to Heather Woods for doing a good job on pulling the story together and getting Mr. Tucker and the other doctor's views. K2 Heather.

Loki - you just get uglier and uglier man! 

a student in facebook, did a post linking the critics of this stem corp,,its a scam ,these guys are crooks, destroying this island with each scheme they spin


excellent letters in todays MON, on Southlands, ACE and E wart, he needs to be locked up in jail, for the scandal and pain he has created in less than one year

Dr Tucker highlighted one of my big "problems" with Doc's stem cell clinic. That is that Bermuda has no controls in place, nor staff to enforce those controls in relation to this sort of cutting edge experimentation. My feeling is this is exactly the reason Stemedcia is coming, then need a place without regulations, somewhere they can do almost whatever they want. Somewhere they have control of the G'ment.

Yes indeed. Exactly as you both point out. The only reason these companies set up shop outside of the US and oother certain jurisdictions is because they know they will not be able to operate in said jurisdictions. But the main issue that Bermuda should be concerned with, other than we are quickly developing a reputation similar to places like Cuba, is just what Dr. Tucker has pointed out. As mentioned at the start I wouldn't want to be living next to the clinic... you never know what the cat might bring home.

UE - how about breaching the immigration & labour policies of the island? By all rights a Chief Executive Officer cannot be a consultant to the very company he/she is supposedly running. Unless there's a whole bunch of Consultant CEO's running about Bermuda that I'm not aware about I'd say he's complicit in trying to cheat the system.

Thanks, Smokes. I didn't know that. Why hasn't anyone called them on it? If that's true (and I'm not saying it's not) how is he able to do it without being zapped for it?

UE - Ask Derrick Burgess....