The story published in The Scientist about one of the presentations I missed in Albany, shows the utter disingenuousness of Big Biotech’s propaganda campaign in favor of ESCR and human cloning. In Maryland, for example, legislators replaced the accurate term “embryo” with the junk term “unused material,” in order to pass an ESCR funding bill. And it worked. Shame on the legislators for being so ignorant that they would fall for such a maneuver, and shame on the scientists for being proud of corrupting science by approving the use of misleading language in a debate about science ethics.
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…