My alma mater has scrapped Columbus Day. This October 12, the university will celebrate “Fall Weekend” instead. The move comes after the school’s Undergraduate Council of Students passed a resolution stating that “Columbus Day is often celebrated in a . . . . Continue Reading »
George Bush was often accused of politicizing science. But his differences with the science sector generally involved ethics or policy differences, not hostility to empirical data. If science has been corrupted, the rot has come from within from scientists who blatantly publish ideological advocacy . . . . Continue Reading »
The CBC has produced and now released The Great Stem Cell Debate: Lines That Divide, a documentary that will soon be aired on television and perhaps in theaters. Jennifer Lahl, the CBC’s head, has worked her finger to the bones getting this film done and distributed. (Yes, I am in it.) I have . . . . Continue Reading »
George Bush was often accused of politicizing science. But the real truth is that science has been corrupted from within by too often slouching into blatant ideological advocacy or money-driven agendas. And here’s an unintended admission of that very point. The New York Times Magazine ran a . . . . Continue Reading »
This interview by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is frightening in its candor about how she apparently perceives her job as one of establishing “right” policy—which, in her case are of the Left Intellectual Elite—as opposed to interpreting and applying law as it was created by . . . . Continue Reading »
It would be one thing if the NHS bureaucrats were delivering improved care. But for years now, under the general heading “NHS Meltdown,” I have chronicled failure after sometimes deadly failure of the socialized medical service to the people of the UK. But that hasn’t stopped . . . . Continue Reading »
Our latest episode of hypocrisy by those who are the most high strung over the predicted collapse of civilization due to “climate change,” (i.e., Al Gore taking limos and private jets), is our intrepid President Obama. He who is so concerned about carbon footprints and promoting . . . . Continue Reading »
Nicholas Kristof, the famous New York Times columnist, has weighed in on animal rights. Except he hasn’t. Animal rights is not the same thing as animal welfare— improving the humane treatment of animals, a good and noble cause. Rather, it is an ideology that equates human and animal . . . . Continue Reading »
I was shocked by this assisted suicide scene when Soylent Green first came out-in the early 1970s—and believe me, I was not alone. As the audience left the theater, we assured ourselves, “It can’t happen here.” How wrong we were. No one dreamed that less than 40 years later . . . . Continue Reading »
China’s one child policy has led to a terrible problem with sex selection abortion, leading to tens of millions fewere females than males, causing a crisis in gender distribution that threatens to undermine China’s stability. From the story:Selective sex abortion causes 32 million excess . . . . Continue Reading »
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