John M. Simpson is an American consumer rights advocate and former journalist. Since 2005, he has worked for Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan nonprofit public interest group, as the lead researcher on Inside Google, the group's effort to educate the public about Google's dominance over the internet and the need for greater online privacy.
California's Little Hoover Commission voted at its meeting this week to examine the state stem cell agency's governance structure and oversight committee.…
Sep 26, 2008Stem Cell Board Chairman Bob Klein and member Jeff Sheehy clashed heatedly over a former board member's highly paid consultancy to the…
Sep 23, 2008Two California stem cell agency subcommittees meeting Friday and Saturday faced an ongoing problem -- mustering enough members for a quorum. In…
Sep 23, 2008
The Interstate Alliance on Stem Cell Research, meeting in Baltimore, MD, Tuesday and Wednesday, moved into new territory, opting to develop a…
Sep 11, 2008
Representatives of 10 state stem cell agencies are meeting today in Baltimore at the fall gathering of the Interstate Alliance on Stem…
Sep 9, 2008There's a real gap between the actual protection provided by online "privacy policies" and what Californians think they are getting. We're lulled…
Sep 3, 2008Google launched its new internet browser, Chrome, today taking on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla's Firefox and Apple's Safari. Does Google's Chrome…
Sep 2, 2008Suppose you made two drugs that did the same thing, but one sold for $60 a month and the other for $2,000. …
Aug 28, 2008Stanford University's decision to curtail drug and medical device company financing of its continuing medical education (CME) programs is a major step…
Aug 27, 2008I recently obtained a list of the companies which filed letters of intent with the stem cell agency to apply for New…
Aug 26, 2008
Only universities and nonprofit research institutions had been eligible to get a piece of California's $6 billion stem cell research program until…
Aug 22, 2008Plagued yet again by the problem of a lack of a quorum, California's stem cell oversight committee Tuesday evening coped in an…
Aug 13, 2008
The California stem cell agency's Standards Working Group hammered out very thorough ethical guidelines to ensure human embryonic stem cell lines derived…
Jul 29, 2008Interested in how the California stem cell agency has so far parceled out $554 million in research grants? The California Institute for…
Jul 28, 2008Looking at recent top hires at the California stem cell agency, I'd been focusing on the fat salaries being paid to the…
Jul 22, 2008Executives of California's stem cell agency are planning to hit the road next year resulting in an eye-popping 287 percent increase in…
Jul 18, 2008California stem cell agency Chairman Bob Klein has stepped down as president of the stem cell advocacy and lobbying group Americ...
Jul 15, 2008To his credit Bob Klein, chairman of the California stem cell agency, has apologized to Sen. Sheila Kuehl for an unseemly...
Jul 14, 2008