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The Swedish Skeptics have announced their annual awards for 2016. The Enlightener of the Year award is given to the science desk at Dagens Nyheter, a major newspaper. Science editor Maria Gunther and medicine reporter Amina Mansoor have made medicine and other science accessible in an initiated yet comprehensible way. Congrats Maria and Amina, well deserved!
Paolo Macchiarini misled the world over his breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, but why did most of the institutions that supported him bear no responsibility for hosting a rogue stem cell surgeon? It’s time for them to launch full and independent investigations, argue John Rasko and Carl Power By 2008 it looked like a medical revolution was under way. Before us lay a new world, where any injured organ could be replaced with one custom-made in the laboratory. Leading us there was the charismatic Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who’d begun replacing damaged windpipes with tissue eng...