“They agree on little else, but the heads of Northern Ireland’s four main parties are united in their determination to deny their countrywomen access to free abortion at home.” So says an outraged correspondent for The Economist , reporting on the failure of an initiative to . . . . Continue Reading »
This week we’ve pointed out a couple instances of the confusion surrounding the global-warming debate. If you’re looking for a clear and constructive forum on the topic, you should check out the website Climate Debate Daily , which compiles articles and news stories both for and against . . . . Continue Reading »
Why does a man who describes the French left as a “great backward-falling corpse” continue to associate himself with it? This is the question Fred Siegel tackles in his review of Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism by Bernard-Henri Levy. Even at its most exasperatingly . . . . Continue Reading »
The NEJM has an editorial out in which it claims to tackle the three “inconvenient truths” about health care. From the editorial: 1. Over the past 30 years, U.S. health care expenditures have grown 2.8% per annum faster, on average, than the rest of the economy. If this differential . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an exciting animal experiment. Scientists found an adult prostate stem cell in mice and one cell grew an entire new prostate gland. From the story. Here we identify CD117 (c-kit, stem cell factor receptor) as a new marker of a rare adult mouse PSC population, and demonstrate that a . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the disturbing areas of biotechnology that deserves more scrutiny than it has heretofore received is the “savior sibling” concept. A savior sibling is created via IVF and tested prior to implantation to match the DNA of a born child with a disease that could benefit from tissue . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientists from UCLA have found an unexpected—not to mention cheap—way to produce x-rays: Scotch Tape . Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch . . . . Continue Reading »
Ryan T. Anderson has already noted George Weigel’s exchange with Obama’s ostensible pro-life Catholic supporters. Weigel’s most recent rejoinder is, indeed, simply devastating. But there was one particular attack on Weigel that was not addressed, but is worth highlighting: Weigel . . . . Continue Reading »
This is just unbelievable, or better stated given the UK’s history in this field, it is all too believable. At the last minute, the Parliament in the UK added a provision to its omnibus embryo bill—that among other things permits human/animal hybrid cloned embryos to be . . . . Continue Reading »
James’s post, "A View from Somewhere of this Month in Pomocon," as I understand him, seems to me to describe a contemporary view of politics that has striking similarities to the age of the classical Greeks who were confronted with the death of their myth and the ongoing . . . . Continue Reading »
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