Stem Cell Con Men Plead Guilty, Face Jail Time, FDA Reveals

Back in April 2010, hidden cameras captured what Scott Pelley called “one of the most outrageous cons” ever reported by 60 Minutes. A self-proclaimed doctor named Lawrence Stowe was promising desperately ill patients the impossible -- a chance to reverse the incurable, from autism to multiple sclerosis to every kind of cancer. How? With dubious stem cell treatments that could cost upward of $100,000.

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