In case you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past ten days, you might not have heard that the big news hasn’t had anything to do with pirates off of the horn of Africa, or bankers on Wall Street, or politicos in Washington or most certainly professors in a university anywhere. . . . . Continue Reading »
As many friends of Pomocon have observed, the cult of optimism involves some pretty serious pathologies and distorting effects on individual and social life. But one way of thinking about optimism begins with the suggestion that the optimist’s basic concern is with energy. We will, says the . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s something uncanny about a lawsuit in which Woody Allen pillories the defendant as “sleazy” and “infantile,” prompting said defendant to argue “that it can’t have damaged his reputation by using his image because the film director has already ruined . . . . Continue Reading »
This escaped my notice until it was brought to my attention by a regular SHS reader. Last month, Tim Kaine the Governor of Virginia, signed into law a bill that prohibits the state from funding embryonic stem cell research. From the story: Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, the chairman of the Democratic . . . . Continue Reading »
The science journal Nature pushes the brave new world agendas of cloning and embryonic stem cell research with gusto and zealotry. That is why I find the below quote from a 1987 editorial that decried the use of the phony term “pre-embryo” so interesting. From the editorial, “IVF . . . . Continue Reading »
Either Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi doesn’t know what is actually happening in biotechnology or she doesn’t care. Actually, I think it may be both. The other day on her home turf of San Francisco, she went into utter hype mode about ESCR that was reminiscent of the bad old days . . . . Continue Reading »
In the unlikely event you haven’t heard about the most recent controversy at Georgetown University: Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”—symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama . . . . Continue Reading »
“Well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord But you’re gonna have to serve somebody .” Bob Dylan, Gotta Serve Somebody , 1979 Four months into . . . . Continue Reading »
The headline of this story from the Times of London—“Blind to be Cure with Stem Cells”—is really putting the cart before the horse—it hasn’t even been tried yet, after all. But such hype is par for the course. From the story:British scientists have developed the . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, it’s good to be blogging again and many thanks to James for getting us back in business. And not to congratulate myself shameslessly but Peter is right that the Delsol conference was a terrific event. Another issue that came up during our discussions: is part of . . . . Continue Reading »
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