Adult stem cells have advanced so much further than this ESC experiment—restoring feeling to people with long time spinal cord injuries—with almost no media coverage. (Apparently, the advance was achieved with the wrong kind of stem cells.) But it is worth noting that a human . . . . Continue Reading »
Back in 1955, Michael Caine the actor says, he asked a doctor to kill his dying father. That may or may not have happened. And somehow, this 55 year-old event is supposed to promote voluntary euthanasia? From the story:R Michael Caine has revealed how he asked a doctor to help his . . . . Continue Reading »
In Australia, babies that survive abortion are being drowned in buckets of formaldehyde or abandoned on shelves until they die: Babies that are surviving late-term abortions at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital might be being left on shelves to die, according to an Anglican minister. . . . . Continue Reading »
Does how much you care about having brand-name items depend on how religious you are ? The brand name logo on a laptop or a shirt pocket may do the same thing for some people that a pendant of a crucifix or Star of David does for others. For people who aren’t deeply religious, visible markers . . . . Continue Reading »
(Yeah, I know: This clip has been floating around the web for a long time. But some people haven’t seen it yet, so it’s new to them .) (Via: Creedal Christian ) . . . . Continue Reading »
To promote stem cell awareness, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine held a poetry contest. One of the two top winners wrote a poem using the words of Jesus at the Last Supper to apply to embryonic stem cell research: Stem C. This is my body which is given for you. But I am not . . . . Continue Reading »
Hubris and arrogance have no limits for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine—as I have often shown. But utter cluelessness?Anyway, here’s the story: To promote stem cell awareness, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine held a poetry contest. One of . . . . Continue Reading »
While some claim global warming to be a fact, I can’t help notice that there are some very notable scientists with a profoundly heterodox points of view. And now Harold Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara—who can’t be defined in . . . . Continue Reading »
It is always fun to find a writer you enjoy agreeing with you. Making a point I made yesterday in From Junior High Down to VH1 , Andrew Ferguson writes about the once notorious humor magazine National Lampoon in Read This Review Or . . . from the Wall Street Journal : In the . . . . Continue Reading »
In an important article , Allan Hertzke reflects on the threats to religious liberty in the aftermath of the CLS v. Martinez decision. While he admires Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in that case, he wonders if we are not now reaping what Scalia sowed back in 1990, with his opinion for the . . . . Continue Reading »
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