I have been warning anyone who will listen about the coming huge policy fight over medical futility—what I call Futile Care Theory—that allows a doctor to refuse wanted life sustaining treatment when the doctor doesn’t believe that the quality of the patient’s life is worth . . . . Continue Reading »
Now that Ah-nold has endorsed John McCain , we eagerly await John McClane’s alter ego to fill out the Planet Hollywood trifecta. (Sylvester Stallone effectively came out for McCain during an interview promoting his most recent gorefest.) We know Chuck Norris is in the Huckabee camp, but . . . . Continue Reading »
Ian Wilmut’s old cloning team is furious, apparently, that he is receiving a knighthood for his “service to science.” Their point is that Wilmut did not actually clone Dolly or do anything other than administer the lab in which the groundbreaking cloning experiment took place. From . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve often wondered about the strangely verbose and self-important irrelevance of contemporary universities. Think about it. In 1968 the universities were at the center of political and social ferment. Students were in the streets. Professors such as C. Wright Mills, Norman O. Brown, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Ignoring that New Jersey voters recently rejected a $450 boondoggle bond issue to pay for embryonic stem cell research, New York State is funding the research to the tune of $600 million without even giving the people a chance to vote on the issue. And those behind the effort have no intention of . . . . Continue Reading »
Or is that bloggers who blog about Karl Barth ? In any event, there’s a second annual conference scheduled for June, and Der Evangelische Theologe is calling for digital papers. Imagine, though, if Barth did have a blog. “Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and . . . . Continue Reading »
On Monday, Nathaniel wrote about college endowments and proposed legislation. The Pope Center for Higher Education Policy debates the question, “Should colleges be required to pay out a percentage of their endowments?” here . . . . . Continue Reading »
So, last night, I took my daughter to her first live college basketball game— Georgetown vs. St. John’s , at Madison Square Garden. She told me it was the best game she’d ever seen, which is a little bit sad—I’m such a bad father!—because the playing was . . . . Continue Reading »
Amanda, the story you linked to caught my eye this morning, selfishly, because the cancer medication that was contaminated and caused the paralysis—methotrexate—is one of the drugs I take (though for arthritis, not cancer, treatment). But I don’t know if pro-lifers should be jumping . . . . Continue Reading »
Almost 200 Chinese cancer patients have been paralyzed by contaminated drugs, says a New York Times article today. And seeing that it’s hard to buy anything that doesn’t boast a “made in China” gold label, it’s not particularly surprising that the same drug maker . . . . Continue Reading »
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