To my great delight and surprise, I have learned that there are about 10,000 discreet visits to Secondhand Smoke per month, with people checking in literally from every continent except Antarctica. Better yet, since I have been keeping track, the numbers seem to be slowly, but steadily, growing. . . . . Continue Reading »
In order to win the raging political debate over human cloning, political-scientists have determined that they should stop using the “C-word,” cloning, to describe their agenda and replace it with somatic cell nuclear transfer. This is the mendacious tactic used in Missouri, for example, . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is an ad against Missouri’s mendacious Amendment 2: a measure that is “too slick, too deceptive, too . . . . Continue Reading »
The UK euthanasia group “Dignity in Dying” worries that “the religious right is on the march.” Reporting on the Toronto World Federation of Right to Die Societies Convention in its Autumn 2006 newsletter, we learn that my name apparently came up in the discussions. As usual, . . . . Continue Reading »
Missouri voters are being treated to what may be the most expensive initiative campaign in the state’s history—almost all from out the wallet of one man, financier James Stowers. There is no question that Stowers has done some wonderful things for MO. But now, he wants something for that . . . . Continue Reading »
Walsh Stem CellThe ad represents everything people hate about politics. First, it is dishonest. It has a woman claiming she will get Alzheimer’s in twenty years, strongly implying that ES cells could cure her. But, it is well known that ESCR is highly unlikely to provide a cure for . . . . Continue Reading »
No, not the act of a doctor lethally prescribing poison to a patient for use in suicide. Rather, the Department of Human Services—ever compliant with assisted suicide advocacy goals—will now call the act of doctors lethally prescribing overdoses of drugs for use in suicide, . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been criticized for focusing on the violent animal liberationists (SHAC, ALF) here at Secondhand Smoke, and those liberationists who refuse to condemn such violence (PETA). So, I recently featured Gary Francione, an animal liberationist who adamantly rejects violence, both here and at the . . . . Continue Reading »
The good people over at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity have asked me to comment on the CBHD blog and for permission to republish some of what I write here at Secondhand Smoke. It was my distinct pleasure to agree. So, starting now, you can also find me at bioethics.com, as well as . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been doing some radio to MO to discuss Amendment 2, which would create an explicit state constitutional right to conduct human cloning research via the somatic cell nuclear transfer procedure. The proponents of Amendment 2 claim to ban human cloning, which is false. But the lie is working. . . . . Continue Reading »
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