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Type I diabetes and cord blood
Researchers at the University of Florida have treated children, aged 2 to 7, with infusions of their own stored cord blood, with some improvement in insulin production and control of blood sugar. No one knows the exact mechanism that causes the disease we know as Juvenile or Type I Diabetes Melitus (DMI), but it is … Continue reading
"The tie goes to the speaker, not the censor"
Whether you see today’s ruling as “weakening” or “slapping,” or “trimming” the McCain/Feingold campaign laws, you’ve got to appreciate the simplicity of this statement by Chief Justice Roberts: “Discussion of issues cannot be suppressed simply because the issues may also be pertinent in an election,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. “Where the … Continue reading
More equal or less?
A self-defined troll, Siricou Raven, asks, Merely being human genetically isn’t enough – so what do humans have that makes them protected over all other species? And when do they aquire whatever this is? SR, I don’t have to weigh, measure and evaluate – you do. You are the one asserting that “being human genetically … Continue reading
Christian Docs' Ethics on The Moral Worth of Human Life
Yesterday, at the annual meeting of the House of Representatives of the Christian Medical and Dental Association, three statements on ethics were approved. I don’t have all of the text or the final versions of any of them at this time and will report on them in more detail later, but I would like to … Continue reading
The Veto vs. the Big Picture
Yesterday, the President vetoed a Bill that would have “enhanced” some human embryos right out of life, while pledging to save more lives, now. According to the White House Press Release reporting on President Bush’s speech, he was joined by Dr. William Hurlbut and Dr. Don Landry. Both of these men are proponents of alternative … Continue reading
Animal Farm: Trojan Pigs and Devolution of Standards
Correction, here: Another blogger The same poster that found it necessary to rant that Fox and CBS wouldn’t advertise condoms on the Bioethics.net Blog also posted on the Women’s Bioethics Blog. Blog.bioethics.net has been “down” since I posted yesterday – Coincidence? (Update June 21 – they still haven’t posted my post.) There’s a link to … Continue reading
Who needs these ads?
Blog.bioethics.net, the blog of the “American” Journal of Bioethics editors and pseudoeditors, are protesting the fact that some TV networks won’t sell advertising time to a condom manufacturer. As I commented on their site, the ed’s and pseudo-eds have forgotten that most Americans don’t live on a college campus. ((Where one in four the residents … Continue reading
Racism, politics, and really big numbers
Last week’s announcement that three different labs have managed to not only reproduce work showing that certain genes are responsible for embryonic-stem-cell-ness, but actually managed to turn adult cells into embryonic-like stem cells has been widely reported and comment upon. Times Magazine displays blatant racism and not a little naivete in their report, “Japan gets … Continue reading
"Duty to Die" (A Bioethics "Target" if there ever was one)
If the person has lost her moral agency/personhood as I argue, then the person who deserved reward is no longer present to receive it. It is the new moral entity, having done nothing, that receives the reward for what someone else did. Seriously! “Someone else?” Yesterday, I discussed the first of two “Target Articles” in … Continue reading
Trust me: I'll act against my conscience
The title throws you for a loop, doesn’t it? Trust me to do what? Follow the law, when I can violate my own conscience? Practice ethical medicine when I promise not to have any personal convictions to guide me? What are laws and ethics to a person who has no conscience? This month’s American Journal … Continue reading
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