PETA is ever about the task of blurring the vital distinctions between humans and animals. One propaganda method routinely employed is to misuse terms or words that apply specifically to humans by associating them with animals. Now, they are even doing it with insects. PETA’a WEB site has a . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a very disturbing story from the London Times. It seems that some Ukrainian women have charged that their babies were stolen at birth either to be sold for adoption, or worse, used as crops for body parts. I usually don’t post stories such as these, since they often represent urban . . . . Continue Reading »
This article has pegged the ridiculous joke that Proposition 71 has quickly become. Conflicts of interest, no transparency, not even enough trained researchers to do the cloning that California citizens are borrowing $6-7 billion (including interest) to fund. Here is the key quote: . . . . Continue Reading »
Leon Kass has resigned his position as the chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics. I will miss his leadership. Kass is one of the great thinkers in contemporary bioethics and a writer of intense talent whose prose reads like poetry. As chairman of the President’s Council on . . . . Continue Reading »
This story in the Los Angeles Times illustrates vividly how wacky and mean the animal liberation movement has become: “In recent weeks, one neighborhood in the Larchmont Village section of Los Angeles has been under siege: graffiti scrawlings, stink bombs, menacing midnight phone calls and, in . . . . Continue Reading »
After I posted the blog below, I heard from Steven Drake, research analyst for the stellar disability rights activist groups, Not Dead Yet. I am printing his response because it seems to indicate that some in the media really don’t want the facts to get in the way of their stories about . . . . Continue Reading »
The media are usually clueless and hopeless when it comes to reporting stories about euthanasia, cloning, stem cell research, Terri Schiavo, and the like, accurately. They either misstate facts or omit information that is crucial to understanding the story. Sometimes, I think it is bias. Sometimes, . . . . Continue Reading »
For years we have been told that one reason ES cells are superior to adult stem cells is that they are “immortal,” that is, they can remain viable in culture indefinitely. Several previous studies cast doubts on this assertion, and now another one seems to have put it into its grave by . . . . Continue Reading »
I was part of a one hour debate on a program aired on Wisconsin Public Radio last Sunday. (The program is called “Here on Earth.”) The first half hour was mostly taken up with Dr. Norman Fost giving the usual spin on stem cell research, including some misleading assertions, and my rather . . . . Continue Reading »
Some scientists are beginning to worry that proponents of ESCR and therapeutic cloning have overhyped their case. To say the least! And now they worry about a backlash and want to lower expectations. Sorry. Too late. The coming disenchantment will be terrible because science is one of the few . . . . Continue Reading »
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