My piece in the Daily Standard is out today deconstructing the ridiculous piece of propaganda drivel: “Regenerative Medicine: Pathway to Cures” produced by the Houston-based Alliance for Medical Research.Science depends on intellectual integrity to be, well, science. Pathway to Cures is . . . . Continue Reading »
The show is World Have Your Say. The topic was animal rights. The guests, in addition to me, were a member of the Dutch Animal Rights Party, a Brit vegan, someone defending European farming practices, and a German man whose perspective I never quite got. The show was something of a frustrating . . . . Continue Reading »
And here we have been told that Republicans engage in phony science: In Texas, a report is about to come out about cloning and stem cell research. But three Democrats refuse to sign and have leaked to the press that it states that SCNT cloning creates an embryo or an embryo-like entity. Gasp! . . . . Continue Reading »
There he goes again: I missed this at the time, but last May, Princeton University’s Peter Singer urged in an on-line periodical that brain damaged human beings be used in HIV research rather than chimpanzees. From the story “An Ethical Man:” “‘HIV research using chimps . . . . Continue Reading »
Anti-humanity is on the march in the Netherlands. On one hand they permit the increasing killing of sick, disabled, and depressed human beings, but are on the verge of supporting the Animal Rights Party to the extent that these radicals will find representation in the Parliament. The goal of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Richard Dawkins, the proselytizer for atheistic materialism, apparently supports human breeding programs. This is what Dawkins wrote in “Eugenics May Not Be Bad” from the 11/19/06 edition of Scotland’s Sunday Herald:“IN the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, this is nice. A UK judge has refused to permit an unnamed patient diagnosed with persistent vegetative state to be dehydrated to death at the request of her family who believe it would be better for her to “die with dignity” than live with serious disabilities. Instead, he has . . . . Continue Reading »
Regenerative Medicine: Pathways to CureThis propaganda video, produced by the Alliance for Medical Research, is so filled with lies and junk biology that it has to be denigrated as anti-science. I intend to write about this at greater length, but among the whoppers foisted in viewers in this . . . . Continue Reading »
Perhaps the most dangerous sentence ever . . . . Continue Reading »
Excuse my cynicism, but UN Head Kofi Annan’s urging that the international community regulate biotechnology seems like so much hot air to me. Of course, he is right: We should regulate biotechnology. But based on how the “international community” does business these days, how . . . . Continue Reading »
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