Younger readers of First Things should consider applying for the annual Tertio Millenio Seminar, held this year in Krakow from June 29—July 16. The seminar features the scholarship and instruction of writers such as Russel Hittinger, George Weigel, and Michael Novak with a curriculum built . . . . Continue Reading »
I mentioned last week that Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who has spent the last seventeen years in a vegetative state, was being moved to a private health care facility so that she can be deprived of the nutrients necessary to live. Late last week, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stepped in to . . . . Continue Reading »
Villanova Law and University of St. Thomas School of Law are pleased to announce the third season of their summer law study program in Rome. Located at John Cabot University in the heart of Rome, the summer program offers comparative law courses and, when possible, courses related to the Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
Just last month, I reported about a cancer study that was found to have manipulated data. Now, according to the Sunday Times, a scientist cooked his data to create a seeming connection between autism and a vaccine. From the story: THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine . . . . Continue Reading »
I have posted on the Nadya Suleman matter and her having eight children via IVF. I have also done several radio interviews and have made the following points. First, this is an unregulated field and doctors can basically do just about whatever they like legally. Second, why should we be surprised? . . . . Continue Reading »
When the President of Italy refused to sign a decree delaying the dehydration death of Eluana Englaro—who some call the Italian Terri Schiavo—it seemed to seal her doom. But now the Prime Minister has moved up an emergency session of the Parliament.We’ll see how that plays out. But . . . . Continue Reading »
My kind of furniture!A look into the future unless the bias . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote yesterday about a terrible 2006 Florida case, in which an infant allegedly survived an attempted abortion only to be put in a medical waste bag by the owner of the clinic. The doctor didn’t show up in time—resulting in the live birth of a baby girl at 23 weeks. Well, today he . . . . Continue Reading »
This could be bad. Cass R. Sunstein, just appointed by President Obama to be “regulatory czar,” is a big “quality of life” guy in determining the cost/benefit ratio of government regulations. This is the executive summary of a paper he wrote back in 2003 for the Joint Center . . . . Continue Reading »
Dolly the sheep was cloned because the administrator Ian Wilmut, and the team that did the deed, hoped to create a herd of genetically altered sheep through cloning and inserting human genes that would result in the sheep producing milk containing properties that could be extracted and turned into . . . . Continue Reading »
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