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A fact from Advanced Cell Therapeutics appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 July 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the CEO of Advanced Cell Therapeutics is on the Food and Drug Administration's Most Wanted List after selling stem-cell therapy to people fraudulently?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2018/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Advanced Cell Therapeutics.

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Use of term "fraudulent" in lede edit

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I reviewed this new article for DYK. This issue has been nagging, but not enough to make it a factor in the DYK review. It might be a good idea to qualify the use of term "fraudulent" in the lede a bit. It appears the exec(s) were indicted in some jurisdictions, at least the U.S. But had non-judicial regulatory sanctions in others. This may well not be getting all the nuances right. But the point is one word in the lede may be too concise for the situation. ☆ Bri (talk) 20:38, 4 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

hm. I added the FDA ref there and made another tweak in these diffs. Marketing X when it is really Y, and saying X does Z when there is no evidence for that, is pretty much the definition of fraud and when one does that in medicine it is quackery. Jytdog (talk) 19:14, 15 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

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