“Stem cell research likened to work in Holocaust camps” was the dramatic headline in the Melbourne Age earlier this year. Age journalist Michelle Grattan was reporting on a paper that Federal MP, Christopher Pyne, had presented at a Right to Life conference in Melbourne. Mr Pyne had likened the destructive extraction of stem cells from human embryos, to experiments in Nazi death camps. (The Age, June 28).However, the late unlamented Dr Mengele aside, Grattan omitted to mention that embryonic ste…
