February 17, 2008
William Neaves, head of the Stowers Institute, is perhaps the most disingenuous advocate for human cloning that I have ever encountered. To say that I disrespect the man is to say the sky is blue. Well, he’s at it again … Read More
February 13, 2008
This is worse than awful: A 54 day old baby was sexually abused and beaten to death by her father. Yet during her brief life 30 different health care workers cared for her, and somehow didn’t notice a thing. Plus, … Read More
February 13, 2008
Good news in the Golubchuk case. The court has enjoined the hospital from cutting off Mr G’s treatment. But there will be a trial. But that is how it should be: Let these doctors and bioethicists justify themselves in open … Read More
February 13, 2008
I have warned that “personhood theory” will lead to terrible oppression of so-called human non persons. It allows cloning for the purpose of treating created human organism as a corn crop. It permits us to dehydrate people to death based … Read More
February 12, 2008
I have seen cases like this before: Husband kills sick wife, claims she wanted to die. Facts later disclose he was getting some nookie on the side or wished to pursue other agendas. Classic example: George Delury who “assisted” the … Read More
February 11, 2008
ULCA is the latest research center to successfully create induced pluripotent stem cells. From the story: Researchers at UCLA have become the first in the state to successfully create skin cells that can be used to treat a number of … Read More
February 10, 2008
Now here’s a story that gives the old saying, “the milk of human kindness,” a whole new meaning. It turns out that breast milk may contain stem cells. From the story: The Perth scientist [Dr Mark Cregan] who made the … Read More
February 10, 2008
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) would be laughable if it weren’t so expensive and engaged in funding immoral research with borrowed money that I and every other Californian will have to pay back. The latest shinanigan was exposed … Read More
February 8, 2008
I cannot believe the disaster that is befalling the health care system in the UK. Now, it turns out that patients are leaving hospitals malnourished! From the story: Some 140,000 people are discharged from hospital while underweight every year, and … Read More
February 7, 2008
I have warned repeatedly that we suffer from “expertitis,” my term for the tendency to hand the most important policy decisions over to “experts.” Now, a well known environmental author named David Shearman has written an hysterical piece urging that … Read More
February 7, 2008
Philip Nitschke, as I have repeatedly written, believes essentially in death on demand. He says so again in the wake of the suicide of woman he “counseled:” Nitschke insisted that healthy people of sound mind, who were mature enough, should … Read More
February 6, 2008
John Roberts has been arrested for murdering his wife Virginia in Oregon. Why is this important? His brother claims that John killed Virginia as an act of compassion because she had Lou Gehrig’s disease and didn’t want to wait to … Read More
February 6, 2008
Lio thwarts an early transhumanist uploading experiment.
February 5, 2008
I have written previously of the futile care imposition being attempted by a Winnipeg hospital against Sam Golubchuk, an elderly Orthodox Jewish man whose family wants his life support maintained for ethical and religious reasons. Apparently, he continues to improve … Read More
February 3, 2008
“Hillarycare” crashed and burned in 1993 because it was overly bureaucratic and complicated. She has now gone in the opposite direction–mandatory private coverage. But, I don’t think this policy idea is going to fly, either. When asked how she would … Read More
February 3, 2008
The media in Australia and New Zealand are shocked that Philip Nitschke–the Down Under Jack Kevorkian–would help a woman commit suicide who wasn’t terminally ill. What amazes me is that they are seemingly surprised. He’s done it before in the … Read More
February 2, 2008
The Brits like to brag that their approach to cloning is the most enlightened, that is, it allows new biotechnologies to proceed, but only under “strict” regulations. Except, I have yet to see any meaningful restrictions or strict regulations actually … Read More
February 1, 2008
The new eugenics is growing at a horrifying pace. In the UK, a House of Lords, member argued that disabled children should be aborted for their own good. From the story: Seriously disabled children should be considered non-persons and would … Read More
February 1, 2008
A man’s jaw was refashioned using adult stem cells from his own fat. From the story: Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient’s upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own … Read More
February 1, 2008
James asks: Wesley, What’s your take on the Lauren Richardson case in Delaware? Can you get involved to protect the life of this young woman? Lauren Richardson, for those who may not know, is a young woman diagnosed to be … Read More
February 1, 2008
A story from Japan I think is metaphorical to a larger ennui or nihilism in the West. Suicide rates are at very disturbing proportions. From the story: If the Golden Gate Bridge had been built in Japan, there might be … Read More
January 31, 2008
I have been warning anyone who will listen about the coming huge policy fight over medical futility–what I call Futile Care Theory–that allows a doctor to refuse wanted life sustaining treatment when the doctor doesn’t believe that the quality of … Read More
January 31, 2008
Ignoring that New Jersey voters recently rejected a $450 boondoggle bond issue to pay for embryonic stem cell research, New York State is funding the research to the tune of $600 million without even giving the people a chance to … Read More
January 30, 2008
More of this please. California regulators have hit Pacificare with a huge fine. From the story: After an unprecedented eight-month joint state probe triggered by hundreds of complaints, state health insurance regulators Tuesday slapped the PacifiCare unit of UnitedHealthcare with … Read More
January 30, 2008
Newsman Mike Wallace is recovering from a triple bypass surgery. Why is this a matter of interest other than to wish him well? Because under age-dictated health care rationing of the kind practiced in the UK and urged upon us … Read More
