October 18, 2007
Since the KC Star’s Kit Wagar continues refusing to report the stem cell debate accurately or objectively, I thought a few further examples of true scientific definitions are in order–definitions propounded by SCNT supporters, but which Wagar appears to care … Read More
October 18, 2007
This is how the term “somatic cell nuclear transfer” is defined on the National Institutes of Health Web site: Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT–A technique that combines an enucleated egg (nucleus removed) and the nucleus of a somatic cell to … Read More
October 16, 2007
Fact, it has been said, is stranger than fiction. And fiction can be pretty strange. Take, for instance, an 1896 novel by famous English thinker, H.G. Wells, “The Island of Dr. Moreau.” As one can see from the date of … Read More
October 12, 2007
Well, my little blog entry of yesterday taking the MO Secretary of State to task for bias for the Orwellian language she is using to describe the proposed ballot initiative to enact a real cloning ban in Missouri made a … Read More
October 12, 2007
The human-cloning fight rages on in Missouri and state officials are once again taking sides and tricking voters. But possibly the worst fraud yet came Wednesday from Secretary of State Robin Carnahan. (National Review Online)
October 11, 2007
The MO Secretary of State has released ballot language to describe a potential initiative to outlaw human somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning. And of course, it is utterly biased, scientifically inaccurate, and disrespectful of the democratic process. The ballot initiative … Read More
October 11, 2007
Sponsors of a proposed ballot measure that would ban the cloning of human cells expressed outrage Wednesday over the ballot language Secretary of State Robin Carnahan approved. (Kansas City Star)
October 10, 2007
QUEENSLAND’S Coalition leaders are split over legislation that will allow scientists to create embryos using cloning for their research. (Courier-Mail)
October 9, 2007
Oh, the whining. Massachusetts has funded and permitted human SCNT, but it forbids the buying and selling of human eggs for biological research. This has apparently brought research into human cloning to a halt because women aren’t particularly interested in … Read More
October 9, 2007
A lack of human eggs has created a major roadblock in one of the most promising areas of stem-cell research. (Technology Review)
October 9, 2007
Scientist will be able to create half-animal half-human embryos for the first time under controversial new rules announced by the Government. In a dramatic U-turn, Health Minister Dawn Primarolo bowed to pressure from scientists and promised to allow the creation … Read More
October 5, 2007
Over the past year, a major ethical debate has raged in the United Kingdom over whether scientists should be allowed to use animal eggs in their attempts to create cloned human embryonic stem cells. Scientists say that these cells could … Read More
October 4, 2007
This old show of Issues Etc. Radio Program just became available on MP 3. In it, I respond to Ron Reagan’s 2004 speech to the Democratic National Convention. I point out that RR played a big game of bait and … Read More
September 27, 2007
The city-state has spent more than $3 billion in a bid to transform its economy into a knowledge-based one that relies less on manufacturing of products like cell phones and modems and more on fields such as research. (Bloomberg)
September 27, 2007
Limited scientific research on somatic cell nuclear transfers for possible cures of fatal diseases will be permitted following a revision of the relevant law. The law will prescribe the bounds of the research, as well as ban human ova trading. … Read More
September 24, 2007
The New York “all the news we see fit to print” Times has a clueless editorial out today about human/animal hybrid cloning. Here are a few tidbits: Stem cell research in the United States has been hobbled for years by … Read More
September 24, 2007
Stem cell research in the United States has been hobbled for years by severe and misguided restrictions on federal funding. But now a vexing additional problem is slowing even privately financed research. There are distressingly few women willing to donate … Read More
September 22, 2007
The media can’t get enough of this man’s pontificating, but they don’t look at his history to see that what he says should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism. For example, Wilmut wrote in his book The Second … Read More
September 17, 2007
Missouri’s Catholic bishops, right-to-life groups and other opponents of last year’s stem-cell research initiative are lining up behind the new proposal to prohibit the cloning of human cells. (Kansas City Star)
September 14, 2007
While many researchers are happy with the UK ruling that allows human stem cell research, opponents fear the results could lead to mutations, if hybrid embryos should fall into the wrong hands. (ABC News)
September 13, 2007
The unique deal is being paid for by the Government-funded Medical Research Council which says alternative schemes have all failed. (Daily Mail)
September 11, 2007
Ovarian hyper-stimulation isn’t exactly a hot topic at the dining table. However, the Queensland Parliament Cafeteria may be abuzz soon with talk of such things, as our parliamentarians discuss the human cloning legislation soon to be before them. (The Courier-Mail)
September 5, 2007
A Parliamentary committee has recently challenged several proposals in the UK Government’s draft revised legislation for assisted reproduction and embryo research, published earlier this year. These areas of biomedical research and personal reproductive decisions raise important ethical and social issues. … Read More
August 28, 2007
State Parliament will sit late into the evening tonight to accommodate debate on the Government’s controversial therapeutic cloning legislation. (ABC News)
August 28, 2007
The pursuit of cures from embryonic stem cells requires a focus that goes far beyond biology. Researchers, entrepreneurs and others working with this technology must attempt to master a tricky task of juggling science and politics. (Kansas City Star)
