In my role as a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute, I sent a formal comment to the Department of Health and Human Services opposing its intent to revoke the Bush Conscience clause. Instead of revoking it, I urge that it be revised to prevent it from being relied . . . . Continue Reading »
The Times of London has a fair-minded and sobering article today on the troubling growth of stem-cell tourism: [Stem cells] are touted as little short of a miracle: inject them into brains to restore the cells lost to Parkinson’s disease; inject them into the spines of the paralysed to make . . . . Continue Reading »
What do you know, those cute little guys can count : Baby birds can do arithmetic, say researchers in Italy. Scientists from the universities of Padova and Trento demonstrated chicks’ ability to add and subtract objects as they were moved behind two screens. Lucia Regolin, an author of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Where is the institutional memory of the media? A truly good news story has come out about how last year we had fewer automobile accident deaths since the 1960s. There are many reasons for this, with the story focusing on high gas prices last year for reducing the miles driven. Increased seat belt . . . . Continue Reading »
Compassion and Choices (formerly Hemlock Society) has been mighty peeved lately that so many ethical doctors are refusing to supply assisted suicide prescriptions to their patients. As I noted yesterday, Montana’s doctors are apparently refusing to cooperate with the suicide agenda, and so C . . . . Continue Reading »
The prolific British author Terry Pratchett has a moving and frank article about what it is like to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. There is much to digest, including how the medical system in the UK seems inadequate to address serious conditions such as this requiring specialized care. But I . . . . Continue Reading »
When I have time, I intend to list the hospitals and institutions that have said no to assisted suicide in Washington. Now, apparently the same spirit of non cooperation with being complicit in assisted suicide that sprang to life in that state in the wake of the passage of I-1000 has spread to . . . . Continue Reading »
The more I observe PETA, the more bizarre it seems to me. It claims to love animals, and yet it euthanizes more than 90% of the animals it takes in. Why does PETA have to do this? Animal shelters are able to euthanize animals too sick, injured, or aggressive to be found good homes. Moreover, it does . . . . Continue Reading »
No, Robert , I didn’t say Richard Dawkins is silly for not fearing the complete annihilation of the self. As you point out, some entirely unsilly people, Socrates and Cicero among them, have felt the same way. I was instead—unsuccessfully, it seems—using sarcasm to point out how . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s hard to know what to say about the Reverend Dr. Katharine Ragsdale, the new president of the Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Actually, the problem is not that there’s nothing to say, but that Rev. Ragsdale says it all herself. Here’s an excerpt . . . . Continue Reading »
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