I have remarked previously that too often, scientific studies are actually ideological advocacy tracts in disguise. Or, a scientific study is misreported without the nuance contained therein by media toward the same purpose and effect. Or, a study one day says A and the next day on the same topic . . . . Continue Reading »
If only it were this simple and of such little . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an unusual month — polls, pols and so on. But this is an unusual paragraph too. How quickly can you find out what is so uncommon about it? It looks so ordinary that you may think nothing is odd about it, until you actually match it against most paragraphs this long. If you put your . . . . Continue Reading »
This is all so phony: Compassion and Choices (formerly Hemlock Society) has filed a suit to declare Montana’s law prohibiting assisted suicide to be unconstitutional as against Montana’s right to privacy. The suit seeks to declare that a terminally ill person has a right to assistance . . . . Continue Reading »
The problem with constructing a manifesto for postmodern conservatism is that principles, once propositionally articulated, have a way of organically untethering themselves from the experience out of which they were borne. So we idealize generalizations from our lived and pre-theoretical experience . . . . Continue Reading »
I should start off by confessing that this post isn’t at all topical, except insofar as Freddie has challenged the Pomocon stable to explain why postmodern conservative doesn’t just mean "a conservative who should know better" ( TM ). So, with that half-hearted . . . . Continue Reading »
It is still less than a year since the first human IPSCs were derived. One of its supposed downsides as a technique was the need to use retro viruses to effectuate the change from differentiated cell (e.g., skin, or other type of body cell) into pluritpotent stem cell. The fear was this could lead . . . . Continue Reading »
“Pugnacious” takes on quite literal meaning when applied to Russia’s prime minister. With his new video, “Let’s Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin,” the ex-KGB operative shows off his wicked awesome martial arts skills. In isolation this seems exhibitionistic enough, . . . . Continue Reading »
The assisted suicide movement has done much to sow fear and confusion about palliative sedation, sometimes referring to this proper palliative practice as “terminal sedation,” as if the intent is to kill rather than ease suffering. A new study, however, belies this notion. Having . . . . Continue Reading »
It turns out that medieval church windows made for the glory of God were also good for your health : The glaziers who created gold-painted stained glass windows for medieval churches in Europe inadvertently developed a solar-powered nanotech air-purification system. According to Zhu Huai Yong, an . . . . Continue Reading »
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