“. . . there is no compelling scientific argument for the public support of research on human embryos.” Memorize this sentence before you call your Congressman and Senators about next week’s vote on the DeGette-Castle Bill (they’re also calling it the “Stem Cell Research Enhancement Bill,”). You can tell them that your source is this … Continue reading
> “. . . there is no compelling scientific argument for the public support of research on human embryos.” Memorize this sentence before you call your Congressman and Senators about next week’s vote on the DeGette-Castle Bill (they’re also calling it the “Stem Cell Research Enhancement Bill,”). You can tell them that your source is … Continue reading
Go read Nigel Cameron’s Choosing Tomorrow, today! (I can’t resist red buttons marked “push” or puns.) I’ve been writing a piece on “Public Health Ethics,” part of which I dredged up for my comment on this remark of Dr. Cameron’s, “Bioethics” is an optical illusion. Which is not to say that we don’t need IRBs … Continue reading
>Go read Nigel Cameron’s Choosing Tomorrow, today! (I can’t resist red buttons marked “push” or puns.) I’ve been writing a piece on “Public Health Ethics,” part of which I dredged up for my comment on this remark of Dr. Cameron’s, “Bioethics” is an optical illusion. Which is not to say that we don’t need IRBs … Continue reading
From BetterHumans, the Kurzweil blog: NewsA Noteworthy Purchase of Votes(From NY1). It should be no new news that public funds are used to buy votes, but it is noteworthy, to me at least, that the battle over directing taxes poured into the trough to embryonic stem cell research has settled this far: “He’s calling for … Continue reading
>From BetterHumans, the Kurzweil blog: NewsA Noteworthy Purchase of Votes(From NY1). It should be no new news that public funds are used to buy votes, but it is noteworthy, to me at least, that the battle over directing taxes poured into the trough to embryonic stem cell research has settled this far: “He’s calling for … Continue reading
There’s an excellent review of Richard Dawkin’s book (here’s my comments from last October, “Measuring a Universe Without God,” when Dawkins was selling his book on NPR’s The Talk of the Nation and other media), with answers to many of his near-points free online at the New York Review of Books website. I hadn’t heard … Continue reading
>There’s an excellent review of Richard Dawkin’s book (here’s my comments from last October, “Measuring a Universe Without God,” when Dawkins was selling his book on NPR’s The Talk of the Nation and other media), with answers to many of his near-points free online at the New York Review of Books website. I hadn’t heard … Continue reading
I hope that everyone is ready to hit the ground running as business resumes this week. (I know – some people have been running all along, while I took a couple of weeks to give my husband shots of blood thinner and to learn a brand new hate for support hose, all due to Mr. … Continue reading
>I hope that everyone is ready to hit the ground running as business resumes this week. (I know – some people have been running all along, while I took a couple of weeks to give my husband shots of blood thinner and to learn a brand new hate for support hose, all due to Mr. … Continue reading