Leon Kass has resigned his position as the chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics. I will miss his leadership. Kass is one of the great thinkers in contemporary bioethics and a writer of intense talent whose prose reads like poetry. As chairman of the President’s Council on . . . . Continue Reading »
This story in the Los Angeles Times illustrates vividly how wacky and mean the animal liberation movement has become: “In recent weeks, one neighborhood in the Larchmont Village section of Los Angeles has been under siege: graffiti scrawlings, stink bombs, menacing midnight phone calls and, in . . . . Continue Reading »
After I posted the blog below, I heard from Steven Drake, research analyst for the stellar disability rights activist groups, Not Dead Yet. I am printing his response because it seems to indicate that some in the media really don’t want the facts to get in the way of their stories about . . . . Continue Reading »
The media are usually clueless and hopeless when it comes to reporting stories about euthanasia, cloning, stem cell research, Terri Schiavo, and the like, accurately. They either misstate facts or omit information that is crucial to understanding the story. Sometimes, I think it is bias. Sometimes, . . . . Continue Reading »
For years we have been told that one reason ES cells are superior to adult stem cells is that they are “immortal,” that is, they can remain viable in culture indefinitely. Several previous studies cast doubts on this assertion, and now another one seems to have put it into its grave by . . . . Continue Reading »
I was part of a one hour debate on a program aired on Wisconsin Public Radio last Sunday. (The program is called “Here on Earth.”) The first half hour was mostly taken up with Dr. Norman Fost giving the usual spin on stem cell research, including some misleading assertions, and my rather . . . . Continue Reading »
Some scientists are beginning to worry that proponents of ESCR and therapeutic cloning have overhyped their case. To say the least! And now they worry about a backlash and want to lower expectations. Sorry. Too late. The coming disenchantment will be terrible because science is one of the few . . . . Continue Reading »
Ingrid Newkirk, head of PETA, continues to amaze with her twisted sense of priorities. When some terrorists loaded a donkey with explosives in the Mideast and blew it up a few years ago in an attempt to murder scores of people, Newkirk sent a letter of protest to Yassar Arafat—about the death . . . . Continue Reading »
Just to let y’all know how often these reports are coming in these days, here’s a very hopeful story of the many and varied uses fat stem cells apparently have to treat diseases of the heart, bones, and other areas of the body. Once again, embryonic stem cells can make no such . . . . Continue Reading »
The State of Missouri has decided, in its lack of wisdom, to make feeding tubes “optional” under Medicaid for poor people. This is class warfare in the truest sense of the term. If someone needs a feeding tube to survive, and if they can’t afford to pay for the services, refusing . . . . Continue Reading »
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