For years I have been predicting that futile care treatment withdrawals will become the next big bioethics agenda issue to roil the public and involve the courts. Now, the futile care imposers are beginning to roll out the agenda. This Michigan case may be one. Emmie-Rose Yannella, a prematurely . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a good and fair article from the Chicago Tribune (one of the fairest of the MSM in my view), about the growing challenge to Texas’s futile care law. The push back the story reports against the abandonment of patients under futile care theory in Texas is very encouraging. (Attorney . . . . Continue Reading »
Good grief. Now the animal liberationist nuts are freeing halibut from fish farms. Well, stealing them actually. This isn’t “mere” vandalism. It is felonious theft that is depriving honest and hard working entrepreneurs of the fruit of their labor merely because the crazies . . . . Continue Reading »
The more the proponents of Amendment 2 spend, about $16 million to date, almost all from James Stowers of the Stowers Institute, who is determined to buy a constitutional amendment, the worse the measure does. This poll of likely voters shows it with 52% yes, down from above 60% when the initiative . . . . Continue Reading »
When the woman from the UK, diagnosed to be in a persistent vegetative state, was found to actually be interactive via a form of MRI, I predicted that proponents of the death culture would claim that rather than eschewing dehydration for such patients, their awareness would be found to be an even . . . . Continue Reading »
Stay tuned. It will take me a little while to figure out the technology, but, with the help of my good friends at the Discovery Institute, I am hoping to have a weekly podcast up and running within a few . . . . Continue Reading »
A woman has been fitted with an artificial arm that she can control with her thoughts. Outstanding achievement. As my friend Bill Hurlbut always tells me, “Never underestimate the creativity and ingenuity of scientists.” Which, of course, is why we need proper moral and ethical . . . . Continue Reading »
I complain so much about bad media, I feel duty-bound to point out when a good story is printed—either because it is accurate about ES cells, or because it reports progress being made steadiy with adult stem cells.This story in the SF Chronicle, byline Sabin Russell, is an example of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Jennifer Lahl has this piece up over at The Human Future. Dutch physicians have apparently pioneered a new IVF method with good efficiency rates—using only one egg! This means that women do not have to undergo hyper-ovulation, the potentially dangerous procedure in which women receive huge . . . . Continue Reading »
Embryonic stem cell science is devolving into pure spin and hype—and the media are happy to play along. This story from Reuters describes an agreement between the mendacious Advanced Cell Technology and an embryonic stem cell distributing non profit company, WiCell Research Institute, to . . . . Continue Reading »
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