Bloggers and reporters innumerable are churning out reports and commentary on the ongoing Lambeth Conference, and I’ve been dutifully reading as much of it as I can stand. My job, you see, is to spend too much time on the Internet, so that you don’t have to. (At least, that’s how . . . . Continue Reading »
I was on a radio show today and told about an op/ed piece in the NY Times by Steve Ross, who is involved with cognitive research of primates with the Lincoln Zoo, that, the host implied, seemed to go along with the ethics of the Great Ape Project. I hadn’t read it, so I thought I should check . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend Alan Jacobs has a marvelous essay on trees in the new issue of Books & Culture —a fine, fun walk through the forests of dendrology, beginning in his own yard. Still, in his deep and peaceful reveries, Alan doesn’t seem to have mentioned quite all that needs to be said about . . . . Continue Reading »
I read an op/ed column in today’s SF Chronicle by a pundit I don’t know, Tom Teepen, that ranted hysterically about something called the Colorado “Human Life Amendment” that will appear on November’s ballot. From his column:There will be immediate consequences if the . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh, to live to see the day! (Hint: Look at his . . . . Continue Reading »
Regular readers of SHS will (I hope) recall the comment I made the other day about an article in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing that was so neutral on infanticide, it seemed to me to be greasing the skids toward moving policy toward professional permissability. In that entry, I said in . . . . Continue Reading »
If this is true, it is huge. A breakthrough in preventing tissue rejection may permit animal parts and organs to be transplanted into humans—a process known as xenotransplantation. From the story:Blood vessels, tendons and bladders from animals are to be used in humans for the first time . . . . Continue Reading »
I was doing a little research and came across an article of mine, “Depressed? Don’t Go See Kevorkian,” published in the New York Times all the way back in 1995. Anyone interested, can check it out here.Then, I thought I would see whether the very first piece I ever published about . . . . Continue Reading »
The purveyors of popular culture never tire of pushing the euthanasia/assisted suicide agenda. We see it in movies, often made from pro-assisted suicide books, e.g., Million Dollar Baby, The Sea Within, One True Thing. Many of the top television dramas have had pro-assisted suicide themes, sometimes . . . . Continue Reading »
The zeal to demote humans into apes, and thereby destroy human exceptionalism, continues. The National Geographic has an extended article in the April 08 issue—which I saw in the dentist’s office today—entitled “Almost Human.” It is about some chimps—all given . . . . Continue Reading »
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