Ever since the human cloning debates began, some bioethicists have chided the former chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics for having worried decades ago that IVF might pose risks to the children created thereby. Kass was wrong about IVF, they thunder, and he is wrong about cloning, too.
Well, lo and behold: Studies now show Kass was right. Betcha the deriders won’t apologize.
Notes on Anosmia
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