...patients flock from all over the world to the Harvard-affiliated...hospitals...for cutting-edge, scientifically validated treatments for a host of diseases. But then there is the other kind of medical tourism that...“hurts the legitimacy of the entire field” of stem cell science and medicine.
Daley, a member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute’s executive committee...accused the clinics of “financial exploitation” of desperate people, and said those who raise money to finance pilgrimages to them are “raising money to turn over to a fraud.”