No health insurance premiums, no copays, no deductibles, and no coverage limits. I grew up under the care of military medicine—Balboa and Bethesda naval hospitals—and from the perspective of the pocketbook, free health care is rather nice. Then, as a college student I spent a semester in . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s Wall Street Journal , Amir Taheri argues that the Pakistani election delivered a loss to more than just Pervez Musharraf: The Islamist parties failed to garner votes despite intense campaigning. This is but the most recent defeat for Islamist political parties, and that is good . . . . Continue Reading »
I admit that I am pleasantly surprised. The pro cloning bias among the political elite and media in Missouri make it almost impossible to get the straight information to the people of MO about this crucial ethical issue. When a new initiative to outlaw all human cloning was filed awhile ago, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Truth be told, Steve , having spent my adolescence sitting in the front row of some flea-bitten revival house pinning my own nose bridge to my face manually as I squinted through another bad work print of Vittorio De Sica’s Miracle in Milan , I’m in no position to tweak anybody about . . . . Continue Reading »
Anthony, I won’t comment on the putative geekiness of Neil Turok , given that many people, including some of my own children, would aver that I am myself a geek of the first water. I can say, however, that Neil has always seemed to me, on the few occasions I have met him, a very nice fellow. . . . . Continue Reading »
I am still taken aback by the Hastings Center Report publishing a pro infanticide article—bringing that agenda into the heart of the bioethics mainstream. As is my wont, I wrote about it. This is a piece just published in the Center for Bioethics and the Culture’s weekly newsletter. Here . . . . Continue Reading »
California is in the midst of a financial meltdown. Red ink is spilling down the stairs of the Capitol. But of course, none of this affects the fiefdom that is the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine created by Proposition 71. As I wrote during the campaign, under its terms half the state . . . . Continue Reading »
Even though the Dutch are close to legalizing infanticide and nearly 900 patients are killed each year who have not asked for euthanasia, even though assisted suicide is permitted for the depressed in the Netherlands—heedless of the moral cliff off of which they are hurtling their . . . . Continue Reading »
So, the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning of it all. Or so says this guy . Him: “If this is right, it means that time runs forward for a while. Then there’s a random state without an arrow of time, then time runs backwards, and then time runs forward again.” Sounds like the R . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote the other day about the hype merchant, William Neaves of the Stowers Institute, continuing to tout embryonic stem cells—which he usually intentionally confuses with human cloning—as moving on the fast track to provide cures:“The rapid pace of advances in embryonic stem cell . . . . Continue Reading »
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