The NHS is continuing to implode, and apparently some have seen that perhaps a private/public system is the answer. From the story:Tens of thousands of NHS patients will be given money to pay for their own health care in a controversial “voucher” scheme under new government plans. . . . . Continue Reading »
Stephen M. Barr, physicist, author , and First Things contributor , will be giving the following lectures in April: Tuesday, April 1, 11:05 p.m., Wyncote, PA “Faith, Physics, and God: A Physicist Looks at the Dialog between Science and Religion” Reconstructionist Rabbinical College 1299 . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . is the Catholic Channel’s morning show (6-10 am), hosted by Gus Lloyd, on Sirius Satellite radio. Starting Monday you may want to make a point of tuning in ( available online ), as there are several noteworthy guests and a couple of significant anniversaries. Monday On the third . . . . Continue Reading »
Our hyper commercialization of science and medical research is both a great strength and a great weakness. The profit motive certainly stimulates innovation and risk, but it can also stymie advances that don’t fit easily into the prospective bottom line. And so I worry that universities, now . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, the old days of “the scientists” such as some of the people over at Amendment 2 in Missouri telling reporters and legislators that adult stem cells are merely “unipotent,” that is, that they can only create their own kind of tissue, are beyond defending any more. . . . . Continue Reading »
Demonstrating the subversive nature of the euthanasia/assisted suicide movement on proper medical care, Dutch doctors are switching from lethally injecting patients to sedating them into a permanent coma so they die by dehydration over a period of days or weeks. This is the angle being taken in new . . . . Continue Reading »
Having recently attended Jody’s Georgetown lecture on death and politics , I was primed for this Wired piece on Ray Kurzweil, who believes in AI, the singularity, and immortality. There’s all sorts of Skynet-ish goodness in the piece, but the most interesting (by which I mean . . . . Continue Reading »
For shame! Assemblywoman Patti Berg and Assemblyman Lloyd Levine are at it again in the California Legislature. Soon to be term limited out of office, desperate to pass a bill—any bill— that will open the door to assisted suicide/euthanasia, thwarted in their desire by a powerful and . . . . Continue Reading »
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway has a fine article in this morning’s Wall Street Journal , in which she addresses the precipitate cancellation of the popular Lutheran radio interview/news program Issues, Etc. by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s board of communications. Mollie puts this . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientists have conducted a study indicating that human beings can smell danger. From the story:Scientists found volunteers who were previously unable to differentiate between two similar scents learnt to tell them apart when given electric shocks alongside just one of them.They said the findings . . . . Continue Reading »
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