Sikhs, the turban, and the crisis of secularismThe European Court of Human Rights has http://www.examiner.com/x-16024-Europe-Policy-Examiner~y2009m7d17-European-Court-rules-against-the-Sikh-turban-in-French-schools have ruled that male Sikh students cannot wear the turban in school. This prohibition . . . . Continue Reading »
If iPSCs work, they will be better than ESCs because they will be made from the patient’s own cells, and hence, no tissue rejection. They will also be better than using cloned ES cells because they will be easier and less expensive to derive. They will be better than both therapeutic cloning . . . . Continue Reading »
Boy, let us hope this works out! Scientists have discovered that adult stem cells may be able to help restore memory lost to Alzheimer’s dementia. From the story:Researchers have shown for the first time that neural stem cells can rescue memory destroyed by advanced Alzheimer’s disease, . . . . Continue Reading »
This letter , authored by Fr. Fessio, just appeared on the Ignatius Press website : This morning, (Monday, July 20th) Dr. Jack Sites, Academic Vice President of Ave Maria University, flew from Houston, where he was attending a meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, to San . . . . Continue Reading »
James W. Ceaser I was deeply impressed with Peter Lawler’s fine essay, NASA Needs A Philosopher, above all with his last point—number 7—about the possible character of relations with other “civilizations” we might encounter in the universe. I wrote an essay on this same . . . . Continue Reading »
Now this cartoon really hits close to SHS’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Puritanism is still with us: It’s just that the behaviors to be disdained have changed.Here’s an illustration: John Chiang, the California Treasurer, and Harold Goldstein, the executive director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, have co-authored an opinion piece in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Politically correctness in the fight against AIDS costs lives. The much touted Uganda success story that used ABC—abstinence, be faithful, and only then condoms—to reduce HIV infection rates dramatically, has backslid. Is the contrary CNN strategy—condoms, needle sharing, . . . . Continue Reading »
Another excerpt from Caritas in Veritate : The challenge of development today is closely linked to technological progress , with its astounding applications in the field of biology. Technology — it is worth emphasizing — is a profoundly human reality, linked to the autonomy and . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t think the Western media cover the catastrophe of African Aids nearly enough. And I think the lessons learned there are also ignored. First, when Uganda actively promoted ABC—abstinence, be faithful, but if if not those, use condoms—HIV infection rates plumetted. That makes . . . . Continue Reading »
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