The media is touting Gonzales v Oregon as some huge victory for assisted suicide. It is a victory for that agenda, I admit, but not a big one. As I noted yesterday, the ruling was quite narrow and all of the puffing and spinning in the world won’t change that. Besides, I don’t see people . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been warning anyone who will listen, that the intellectual foundation is being laid to create a constitutional right to conduct scientific research. A new book, Illegal Beings, is touted by its publisher as advocating something akin to that approach. Specifically, the book argues that there . . . . Continue Reading »
I have now read the majority opinion. It wasn’t judicial activism. Indeed, the Supreme Court’s majority decision is not a broad endorsement of assisted suicide. In essence, the Court ruled that the Attorney General exceeded his authority in interpreting the Controlled Substances Act. . . . . Continue Reading »
I usually don’t post my media appearances, as many are regional and I don’t want to clutter up the site with such notices. But for anyone who might be interested, I will be on the nationally syndicated Mike Gallagher Show tomorrow, at about 8 . . . . Continue Reading »
The vote was 6-3. I haven’t read the decision, but it appears from this early news report, that the Court has ruled that the Feds have no right to implement its own public policy against prescribing controlled substances to kill people if those who want to die are very sick. How ironic. The . . . . Continue Reading »
I have continued to pay attention to how the media has reported the Hwang fraud, in comparision to how his supposed “breakthrough” was covered, not to mention other important stories. Unsurprisingly, as I predicted when the story first came to light, the media have reported as little as . . . . Continue Reading »
And this news article takes it—and . . . . Continue Reading »
As I suspected, the media is just swallowing the tripe served up by Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack about new medical treatments from nuclear transfer requiring a change in the Iowa law. THERE HAVE BEEN NO NEW TREATMENTS. THERE HAVE NEVER EVEN BEEN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS TAKEN FROM CLONED . . . . Continue Reading »
Tom Vilsack, the Governor of Iowa, wants to overturn the ban on human cloning in that state. To justify the change, he claims there have been many medical advances created using cloning (nuclear transfer), which, of course, is just, plain baloney. Here’s the money quote from his state of the . . . . Continue Reading »
David Oderberg is a friend of mine from the UK and is a philosophy professor at Reading University. In this splendid column published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Oderberg takes on the worrisome trend in which many in society treat scientists as if they were priests. One cause of this phenomenon, . . . . Continue Reading »
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