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>Trading eggs for fertility treatment
>Women who are desperatly trying to get pregnant, but who cannot afford to pay $5,000 – $6,000 for in vitro fertilization may be offered lower IVF fees in exchange for donation of some of their oocytes for research in the UK. The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority approved the trades for one lab last July, … Continue reading
Proof there’s no stem cell “ban”
Wesley Smith, at his blog Secondhand Smoke, notes that American Cell Technology has received a grant from the National Institute of Health for research on embryonic stem cells. He also points out what should be obvious: ACT must have received this funding for research on the stem cell lines that are authorized under President Bush’s … Continue reading
>Support science and human rights for all
>That’s the point that Yuval Levin makes in his New York Times op-ed piece (free registration required), “A Middle Ground for Stem Cells,” today. The essay is also available online at the International Herald Tribune. It is, to begin with, not about stem-cell research, any more than an argument about the lethal extraction of livers … Continue reading
>David Prentice’s Science rebuttal
>This week, Science Magazine, has published a Letter to the Editor (sorry, subscription only) by David Prentice, Ph.D., in response to the letter by Smith, Neaves and Teitelbaum from last July. (That was the letter which prompted Michael Fumento to dub the Journal “PseudoScience.”) In his letter, Dr. Prentice points out that the “Supporting Online … Continue reading
>Bioethicists aren’t needed
>Well, they didn’t come right out and say it. Moreno and Berger are still stomping their feet at Ramesh Ponnuru for doing his job. After all, he’s an editor for a magazine covering “Republican/conservative news, commentary, and opinion.” Moreno has a Ph.D. in philosophy, and Berger is an Assistant to Moreno and two other Fellows … Continue reading
>Progressives vs. Conservatives (rubber, glue)
>What did I tell you? I forgot to tell you what the “Progressives” fuss was about and to link to the actual articles. Which meant that I didn’t review the actual critiques of the report by the President’s Domestic Policy Council (covered here, last week). Jonathan Moreno and Sam Berger of the Center for American … Continue reading
>Biased bioethicist’s slip is showing
>Every time I note someone else’s editorial or grammatical mistakes, I (later, of course) find that I’ve made some glaring mistake of my own in that comment. I’ll try to avoid that here, but read closely, just in case. Nevertheless, . . . Bioethics.net, the blog of the editors (and pseudoeditors) of the American Journal … Continue reading
Projection, distraction about embryonic stem cells
Ignoring the ignoble vote in the House of Representatives today, and without a prior posting about the recent report concerning amniotic and placental stem cells, Art Caplan has posted a little political rant about the politics of stem cells. Caplan is a pseudoeditor over at blog.bioethics.net has once again claimed that someone else is telling … Continue reading
“Con-Job,” “Deception” (Amniotic Stem Cells)
Don C. Reed, a rabid supporter of embryonic stem cell research – and, it seems, only stem cell research – has written an editorial, “Coincidence or Con-Job?” He flatly states that he believes that we are witnessing an act of “weapons of mass deception” in the timing of the release of the newest issue of … Continue reading
>"It’s a matter of taste."
>Bioethics.com has posted a YouTube video from the Ali G show with Dr. Edmund Pelligrino (identified as from “Georgetown University, Papal Advisor Medical Ethics”), Richard Fischer (“American Institute of Homeopathy), Dr. John Freeman (“Johns Hopkins Medical School”) and Louis Brescht (“Catholic Medical Association”). The segment can also be viewed here, identified as “Ali G – … Continue reading
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