I have been receiving much e-mail both praising and castigating my take on Million $ Baby. I have been told, “It’s only a movie,” repeatedly. I know that. But movies have the power to mold popular attitudes. That is why so many anti-tobacco activists want Hollywood to stop . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently so, according to this statement just in from the World Transhumanist Association:“In response to the emerging debate over “robot ethics” the Board of Directors of the World Transhumanist Association unanimously adopted this statement on artificial intelligence on March . . . . Continue Reading »
Clint Eastwood missed a great opportunity to show how real champions overcome . . . . Continue Reading »
Big Biotech’s dishonest drive in the states to legalize human cloning by calling it something else, say, somatic cell nuclear transfer or merely stem cell research, is beginning to be exposed by the wider media. Columnist Robert Novak has it right in this column about the cloning fight in . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been warning of late that science and bioethics have grown so ideological that many in these and related fields assert that there is a constitutional right to do science. (Evidence of the growing attention being paid to these issues can be found in this press release issued by Georgia Tech.) . . . . Continue Reading »
The son and daughter-in-law of the late Hunter Thompson told the Rocky Mountain News that Thompson lived and died as “a warrior.” Baloney. A warrior lives and dies in the service of others; a family, a tribe, a country. A warrior is bound by a code of honor. Thompson lived and died for . . . . Continue Reading »
In this article, published in the Center for Bioethics and Culture on-line weekly newsletter, I describe how radical the human cloning agenda has become in just a few short . . . . Continue Reading »
The Virginia legislature has passed legislation that will fund (assuming the governor signs the bill) adult and umbilical cord stem cell research. No cloning or embryonic research will be financed. Virginia also outlaws human cloning, although some observers contend that the wording of the law may . . . . Continue Reading »
Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint exposes his millions of listeners and readers to Washington’s pending “anti-cloning” legislation, a bill that pretends to outlaw human cloning, but which actually legalizes human somatic cell nuclear transfer, implantation of resulting cloned . . . . Continue Reading »
The media is reporting that the Bush Administration is trying to overturn Oregon’s assisted suicide law in the Supreme Court. I wish. What is really at stake is the power of the federal government to enforce federal law uniformly in all fifty states. I describe the case in this article . . . . Continue Reading »
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