Phony Facebook pages are sweeping the stem cell world, report scientists and bioethicists, the latest victims of bogus pages on the popular social-networking site.
“There appears to be an imposter(s) creating fake Facebook web pages,” wrote university of Wisconsin bioethicist R. Alta Charo in an alert sent Thursday. “This is common, but I have learned that a slew of stem cell researchers at the (University of Wisconsin) have one, as do I, and now I learn the problem is shared with some folks in the national stem cell advocacy world.”