A major medical association has gone on record as being indifferent to whether the laws of its country are changed to permit doctors to hasten the deaths of patients—in complete violation of Hippocratic values. This is a sign of how raw ideology has come to distort empirical thinking. Consider . . . . Continue Reading »
One need only look at the cloning experiments already being conducted in animals to realize that human therapeutic cloning will not long be contained to using early cloned embryos in Petri dishes. This published paper by the biotechnologists at Advance Cell Technology involved “therapeutic . . . . Continue Reading »
Bioethics ideology is generally relativist and roughly utilitarian. “Choice” is the keyword for “persons,” e.g., those with sufficient cognitive capacity to possess what the rest of us call human rights. (Persons can be non humans in this thinking.) If one is not a person, . . . . Continue Reading »
UK animal liberationists have commenced an arson campaign against companies that do business with Huntingdon Life Sciences. If the company is driven out of business by this tactic, not even McDonald’s will be safe. And the silence from the “peaceful” animal rights believers is . . . . Continue Reading »
James Thomson discovered human embryonic stem cells. In an interview, he makes several candid comments about the ongoing debate. One of the most important is set forth below. Dishonest cloning advocates are now claiming that therapeutic cloning does not create a human embryo or a human life, and . . . . Continue Reading »
In the UK a pharmaceutical company’s stock broker had his car firebombed. So, he quit being the broker. This is the continuing pattern here and abroad. Stop businesses from humanely and properly using animals by intimidating, threatening, and attacking businesses and their personnel who have . . . . Continue Reading »
Much of the discussion about embryonic stem cell research and human cloning centers around when human life begins—as if that is a matter of opinion. I did some basic research and found that indeed, human life begins, biologically, at the completion of fertilization. That is simple, basic . . . . Continue Reading »
This bit of drivel from former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo published in yesterday’s New York Times about the Bush embryonic stem cell research funding policy needs responding to. I’ll do my best as soon as I dig out from the vacation . . . . Continue Reading »
My vacation was considerably soured by the release of the Schiavo autopsy results. Not the report itself: There wasn’t much in it that surprised. It was the disgusting spin on the story by some who sought to use the report to further demagogue the story for political and partisan ends. But . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, the vacation hasn’t quite started yet. This article by the splendid Michael Fumento describes why adult stem cells are so under-reported. He makes many good points. Definitely worth the read.Now, I am on . . . . Continue Reading »
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