11 Quotes by John Gearhart

Should reviewers have caught some of this? Yeah, probably they should have. Obviously great claims require great proof, and maybe more people should review such a paper.

I think we have to keep our eye on the ball here. If this stuff proves to work, that's wonderful. But we're just not there yet, and it's going to take a long time to demonstrate that. Meanwhile, other techniques already work well. So let's get on with it.

Regardless of all the strife in this field and our complaining incessantly about national policy, and despite some recent events that have cast a shadow on this work, there's a great deal of excitement in this field.

We could have made tremendous progress in getting these cells toward clinical application if federal funding had been available.

We'll have to deal with the cynicism and anything that comes our way politically from the policymakers. But people should realize that anything that is wrong with the science is of no value to us either.

There is still a great deal of excitement in this field.

These cells will rapidly let us study human processes in a way we couldn't before.

Although it hurts, I think we have to say that if there is fraud of any kind ... it has to be exposed, no matter what the cost. The truth is of more value than anything else.

Their data are certainly very good . . . and quite significant, ... is problematic.