The Washington Post prominently reports a syndicated story, byline Steven Reinberg of HealthDay News, that stem cells have restored memory in mice. Those would be embryonic stem cells that the media and “the scientists” continually insist offer the “best hope” for such . . . . Continue Reading »
This editorial in the Charleston Gazette is so despicable it is hard to know where to begin. In applauding the Federal Court’s decision not to extradite George Exoo at the request of Ireland for allegedly assisting the suicide of an Irish woman, the editorial makes the most disgraceful, . . . . Continue Reading »
The fix is in for New Jersey voters to go $450 million in debt to fund embryonic stem cell research, now that the courts have permitted a bogus ballot description to go out to voters. Few voters will read the initiative itself, but you can here. (It was very hard to find the actual wording of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of SHS and my other work know that Zolpidem—which goes by the brand name Ambien—can sometimes awaken people who have been diagnosed as permanently unconscious. Here is the story in the Daily Mail of another such “miracle” in the UK: A woman who has been in a coma for . . . . Continue Reading »
Disgraceful!Hampshire College in Amherst, MA is permitting animal rights terrorists to hold a planning session on campus. Included on the program will be Jerry Vlasak, who has advocated the murder of animal researchers.Also note the connection between anarchy (smash the state) and animal liberation . . . . Continue Reading »
These kind of stories are so infuriating. A researcher seeking to ameliorate or cure human diseases has her home flooded by animal rights terrorists because they presume the right to coerce others to accept their ideological perspectives. From the LA Times report:An FBI spokeswoman said Monday that . . . . Continue Reading »
In researching for my book on animal rights, I tried to get an interview with PETA’s alpha wolf, Ingrid Newkirk. She declined and through her assistant, suggested I obtain her views from her books and articles. So, I have been doing a little on-line research and came across Newkirk’s MY . . . . Continue Reading »
This front page story in the SF Chronicle, byline Bernadette Tansey, needs comment.A San Carlos startup is offering to create “personalized” stem cells from the spare embryos of fertility clinic clients on the chance that the cells, frozen and stored away, may some day help a family . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a piece in the current Weekly Standard about the “food and fluids” controversy, an issue I have repeatedly considered. I hit several notes in the article. I challenge the falsehood that the federal bill to save Terri Schiavo’s life was purely a Republican enterprise. Not . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember when the vaccine was developed to protect against the virus that causes cervical cancer? And remember the drive by Merck Pharmaceutical to make inoculations of 12-year-old girls mandatory?—a campaign assisted by by too many politicians and media commentators for what appeared to me to . . . . Continue Reading »
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