Not much more to add to the Hwang Woo-Suk stem cell disaster that The Marmot has not already covered.  In a way, though, the whole thing illustrates just how simple and straightforward Chinese philosophy really is. Take this passage from Mencius:

Mencius said: "Don’t do what should not be done, and don’t desire what should not be desired.  Abide by this one precept, and everything else will follow." (240)

     No wispy Oriental inscrutability in that.  Rather, it is clear and direct advice.  And if the good doctor had just kept that in mind….