A breakthrough in stem cell research is announced every few months. While “breakthrough” is an appealing headline, all but a few have been about incremental research progress and far too many have been pure hype: Human cloning! Genetically engineered babies!  Human embryos made from stem cells! have been some of the headlines. In this article, Jeanne Loring, previously called a “stem cell evangelist”, tackles the bad science journalism on stem cells, and the dangers of dodgy stem cell clinics on the rise.