I have been warning for some time now that the animal liberation movement seeks to change the law so that animals can be litigants in lawsuits. (What would really happen is the animal liberationists would be the litigants, with the animal as the unknowing “beard.”) Well it has happened . . . . Continue Reading »
Skin stem cells have been used to grow blood vessels. The good news just keeps on . . . . Continue Reading »
A human heart attack patient’s own bone marrow stem cells appear to be an efficacious treatment that materially assists recovery. Good news that will not be reported with embryonic stem cells for years—if . . . . Continue Reading »
I was asked by the Dallas Morning News to predict future biotech controversies, in a similar way as did the San Francisco Chronicle, published last week and linked here earlier. Here is the somewhat different version that appeared today in Texas. (Registration may be . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the big issues that causes many feminists to oppose therapeutic human cloning is the distinct possibility that women, particularly the most destitute women, will be exploited for their eggs. (One egg is needed per somatic cell nuclear transfer procedure.) When S. Korean researcher Woo-Suk . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s hoping this Australian lawsuit goes nowhere because if it is successful, the law would recognize the concept of wrongful birth. (I know it isn’t in the USA, but remember, our Supreme Court now looks to decisions overseas to determine American constitutional law.) If the parents . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember when President Bush faced his first big policy controversy back in the innocent days of 2001? The issue; whether and how the federal government should fund embryoninc stem cell research. The request from Big Biotech and their business partners in the universities: All we want is access to . . . . Continue Reading »
This piece by opinion columnist Stuart Leavenworth appeared in the Sacramento Bee. (Registration may be required.) Increasingly, the media is beginning to report the truth about 71. It was a big con job that is going to cost the state billions of dollars. Once the Institute for Regenerative Medicine . . . . Continue Reading »
I was asked by the San Francisco Chronicle to write an extended piece that would be a look into the crystal ball about the controversies that can be expected to roil society over issues of science and biotech in coming years. This is it. Among the matters discussed are personhood theory, the . . . . Continue Reading »
I have subscribed to the New Scientist, which is a “pro science” magazine, by which I mean, in addition to purely science articles, it publishes polemical broadsides arguing on behalf of naked science unfettered by societal restraints. In the October 22 issue, Timothy Ferris, identified . . . . Continue Reading »
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