Buena serra from bella Tuscana. I have noticed that much has been happening with the issues we cover. In Brave New Britain, the “we never say no” regulators have approved human-animal cloned chimera embryos and are offering women half off of IVF to “donate” their eggs for use . . . . Continue Reading »
Can you spot the tiger stalking the man and his elephant. Talk about a near death . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a piece in this week’s Weekly Standard on The 4400, an interesting sci-fi program on USA Network. Here’s an excerpt:The 4400 began as a run-of-the-mill diversion about how the world reacts to 4,400 people, abducted by aliens, who return (apparently) from the future, each . . . . Continue Reading »
Secondhand Smokette and I are taking our younger Secondhand Niece to Italy for a two week sojourn and a badly needed rest. It will be a busy fall, with work progressing on my animal rights book, articles to write, and an active speaking schedule. Time to recharge the batteries, eat some pasta, drink . . . . Continue Reading »
I received news from my doctor that made me doubly glad I had a colonoscopy. The one polyp that was discovered was not the usual kind found in the colon. Rather, it was a benign tumor known as a leiomyoma. There was no chance it would have turned to cancer, but it could have gotten big and caused . . . . Continue Reading »
Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer is famous for two primary reasons: First, he jump started the animal rights/liberation movement with his 1975 book Animal Liberation. Second, he is the world’s foremost proponent of the legitimacy of infanticide. Thus, writing on page 186 in Practical Ethics, . . . . Continue Reading »
Talk about a tale that demonstrates the power of the human spirit, and the genius of the human mind: When teenager Jeanna Giese contracted rabies after being bitten by a bat, her chances of survival were deemed nil. But...Her doctors refused to give up. From the story:Rabies, a viral disease spread . . . . Continue Reading »
Adult onset diabetes may be treatable with a radical surgery used to treat morbidly obese patients. From the story in the Telegraph:Gastric bypass surgery could be the latest tool in the fight against Type 2 diabetes, which is normally caused by obesity. One in four people in the UK is currently . . . . Continue Reading »
The moral implications of this story are profound and complex. An Italian couple was pregnant with twins. One of the fetuses tested positive for Down syndrome. A eugenic abortion was performed. The baby without Down was destroyed. The Down child was then also aborted. From the story in the (London) . . . . Continue Reading »
The Center for Consumer Freedom, a food industry-financed non profit, knows more about the animal rights movement and its leading minions than anybody. The Center is also as edgy and in-your-face as the animal activists, which doesn’t please the liberationists one bit—proving that PETA . . . . Continue Reading »
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