I have been very critical of Advanced Cell Technology, believing it to be a publicity seeking enterprise that used press releases to raise venture capital for morally problematic research into human cloning, ESC, the like, while at the same time, it tried to manipulate the political system to create . . . . Continue Reading »
I think too many scientific types want to control the world: And we shouldn’t let them.Latest example: Two physicians writing in the British Medical Journal have urged members to seek to dissuade couples from having more than two children—to fight global warming. From the story: Two . . . . Continue Reading »
I told you all this was coming, and here it is. A California woman named Janet Rivera, age 46, who we are told is unconscious, has a family who want her to continue to receive food and water. Her husband was even her guardian. But he was removed as guardian and a total stranger—the county . . . . Continue Reading »
Brian Brown, from the National Organization for Marriage , sends along the following: At 10:00am next Wednesday, July 30th, pastors and church leaders from across California will join together with their colleagues in Florida and Arizona, forming a “Pastors Rapid Response Team” to . . . . Continue Reading »
Jody noted some amusing mistranslations last week ( here and here ). Well, there are a lot more where they came from. John Derbyshire provides the best of ” Engrish .” (Note that according to our managing editor some of the spelling errors may offend our clientele.) So that’s what . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of First Things will thoroughly enjoy Eric Cohen’s new book, In the Shadow of Progress , released this month from Encounter Books. Last week, Leon Kass introduced the book at an event put on by The New Atlantis at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC (audio available . . . . Continue Reading »
Sunbathers in Italy continued to enjoy the beach despite two children having drowned and the bodies being just left on the sand. From the story:The bodies of two drowned Roma [often called Gypsies] children lay covered by towels on an Italian beach while holidaymakers carried on, unfazed enjoying . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in an opinion written by Judge (and famed law-and-religion scholar) Michael McConnell, issued its opinion in a case called Colorado Christian University v. Weaver. (Click here for more: . . . . Continue Reading »
Good news: Will Saletan is blogging at “Human Nature: The Blog.” (This might not be new, but it is news to me.) I like Will’s work, even though I often disagree with his positions. But people interested in what we do here at SHS, might be interested in Saletan’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s another reason to travel to Belgium, if the world’s best beer and chocolate weren’t enough to draw you there already: its beautiful, well-preserved beguinages . If feminism means a desire for independence from patriarchal authority, the beguines — a Roman Catholic laic . . . . Continue Reading »
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