One of my pet peeves about Oregon is that it rations health care to the poor in its Medicaid program. I believe that rationing is merely a polite term for discriminating against the people who need health care the most. Be that as it may, the way the program works is that a list of more than 700 . . . . Continue Reading »
Maureen Condic is a sterling scientist at the University of Utah, who advocates on behalf of ethical approaches to biotechnology. She bases her points in evidence and science, and in this piece in the current First Things, demolishes most of the perceived wisdom about the benefits of ESCR. It is a . . . . Continue Reading »
Former KKK leader David Duke published a cover story in Sunday’s NYT Magazine, in which he suggested that the hyper rich have a moral duty to alleviate the worst poverty in the world by giving away up to one-third of their fortunes. Despite Duke’s motive of seeking to alleviate poverty, . . . . Continue Reading »
This isn’t good: Irina Bogomolova, the head investigator seeking to track down whether newborn infants were really killed and harvested for their stem cells and organs, was removed from the case after demanding that the investigation be expanded. The Telegraph reported her as saying: “A . . . . Continue Reading »
Slavery is evil because it treats human beings as if they were mere objects to be used for work, sex, or other purposes of the slave “holder.” In doing so, the slave holder shatters the intrinsic human worth of both the slave and the “master,” since treating humans this way . . . . Continue Reading »
Take the stem cell quiz. Impress your friends! Embarrass those who think they are smarter than you! Readers of Secondhand Smoke will pass with flying colors. Readers of the MSM will have to go to stem cell remedial education classes. (One caveat: The test blurs the distinction between ESCR and SCNT . . . . Continue Reading »
As readers of Secondhand Smoke know, I disagree with the mainstream bioethics movement, animal liberationists, the philosophical beliefs of Darwinist materialism, transhumanists, and deep ecologists, and disagree with them profoundly. But there is one thing that I think it is fair to say that we do . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an article from Exit International’s news letter, a very pro euthanasia group from Down Under. It describes the making of the so-called “peaceful pill” suicide concoction. For those who don’t know: Philip Nitschke was in charge of this little project. He was paid . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are few stories I saw today that are worth noticing.1. Canadian scientists have cured mice with Type 1 diabetes using a substance that counteracted malfunctioning pain neurons in the pancreas. This is the second experiment in recent years that cured mice with juvenile diabetes, and both are . . . . Continue Reading »
The news reports about Jack Kevorkian’s “career” as an assisted suicide faclitator, what he would call an “obitiatrist,” are so sanitized or inaccurate that I had to respond. Here it is, at the Daily Standard. The media reports, beyond being inaccurate, overlook the . . . . Continue Reading »
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