You’ve read me, now hear me give a speech, which I called “Bioethics: Creating a Disposable Caste?” It was presented in Washington DC at the Discovery Institute Washington DC headquarters on 2/22/06. It is an MP3 format . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a wonderful breakthrough in tissue engineering: Scientists took bladder and muscle cells from children with bladder disease. They then rebuilt them into a functioning bladder, which was attached to the children’s existing bladders. The result is much improved bladder control without . . . . Continue Reading »
This is what I have been warning against if we reject human exceptionalism, which can lead to an embrace of radical misanthropy. Apparently, Eric R. Pianka, a (deep) ecology professor speaking at a science symposium in Texas predicted in hopeful terms the outbreak of an ebola pandemic that would . . . . Continue Reading »
Both the Schindlers—what a wonderful family—and Michael Schiavo have books out about the death of Terri. If book sales are any indication, the nation remains divided by the case. I have been tracking the Amazon book rankings of both books and they have remained within one hundred of each . . . . Continue Reading »
I am not writing much about the Terri Schiavo case any more. Partly, this is because most people’s views about her death are now set in ten feet of concrete, and nothing I say or write will change it. And partly it is because there is so much about which to be concerned, that there just . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a column in today’s Seattle Times against assisted suicide that urges readers to consider the context in which assisted suicide would be carried out. (It is a rewritten version of a piece that first appeared a few months ago in the Orange County Register.) I bring this up because the . . . . Continue Reading »
I know, I don’t have ovaries. But women do, and their eggs are becoming valuable commodities for biotechnological research. Obtaining eggs, however can be an onerous, even dangerous process. Indeed, two women have died in the UK donating eggs in the last year. And if cloning takes off, . . . . Continue Reading »
This is hot: The promoters of human cloning and ESCR constantly bemoan the alleged “fact” that the USA is falling behind in stem cell research because of President Bush’s funding policies. Now, we know that is pure bunk. The Scientist, no less, has published statistics about the . . . . Continue Reading »
This story about a Japanese surgeon who is accused of “mass euthanasia” is misleading. The doctor is accused of removing respirators from dying patients with family consent. That is not euthanasia, at least as we use that term in the West, which refers to killing by some artificial . . . . Continue Reading »
In this piece in the Daily Standard, I compare German infant euthanasia during World War II—which has been self evidently condemned as a crime against humanity—with infant euthansia in the Netherlands, which the Dutch insist is not a crime againt humanity. The Dutch are . . . . Continue Reading »