Apparently there has been a backlash against advertising with “suicide” themes. From the Seattle Post Intelligencer story: Washington Mutual has stopped running a spot that showed actors playing bankers poised atop a building as if about to jump. These ads are clearly not pro-suicide, . . . . Continue Reading »
I love the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. In the last few days, it has poked fun at the embryonic stem cell/cloning debate. For a good laugh, check these out: Rat gets bored; the pitter patter of little feet, why cloning is bad, and bad news for . . . . Continue Reading »
According to an article in the New Scientist, A simple formula can predict how people would want to be treated in dire medical situations as accurately as their loved ones can, say researchers. According to a study, surrogate decision makers were only 68% right when trying to predict what their . . . . Continue Reading »
This is tertiary targeting, and it is now a felony thanks to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Thugs from the Animal Liberation Front are targeting employees of Wachovia, Corporation—a financial company—vandalizing their property and otherwise terrorizing them. Why is ALF targeting . . . . Continue Reading »
The Star Ledger (“the voice of New Jersey”) has an ESCR story out, byline Kitta MacPherson, which is, as usual, biased in the direction of promoting ESCR. A study has been published in Nature reporting that human embryonic stem cells in mice effectively treated Sandhoff disease, a malady . . . . Continue Reading »
This story is a warning: Six developmentally disabled people have died in the UK, apparently, due to medical neglect, according to “Death by Indifference,” a report published by MENCAP, a Mental Disability Charity. From the Telegraph story: Dr Roger Banks, the vice-president of the Royal . . . . Continue Reading »
I am growing increasingly concerned about suppression of heterodox views in science. This story in the Telegraph, I think, demonstrates the point. It is about the stifling of scientists who are skeptical about the conventional view about the existence of global warming and its causes. I don’t . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote a post a few days ago criticizing the decision by the board of directors of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine to assume a position of “studied neutrality” on the crucial moral issue of physician-assisted suicide. It is simply a disgrace that the professional . . . . Continue Reading »
The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued its ninth, virtually meaningless report on assisted suicide. I say virtually meaningless because it’s statistical analysis depends almost entirely on death doctor self-reporting. Little noted in the media, which regurgitates these statistics . . . . Continue Reading »
In mice, Israeli scientists have apparently created a “miniature heart” using embryonic stem cells. If the story is right, the stem cells were morphed into the building blocks of heart cells, after which the scientists “found a way of persuading the different types of cell which . . . . Continue Reading »
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