This Blog considers assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, radical environmentalism, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. My views expressed here, as in my books and other writings, reflect my understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: human life matters. (The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.)
This editorial from Investor's Business Daily is right on the money. Tremeondous progress is being made in adult/umbilical cord blood stem cells (which is why it gets more private funding), all but ignored by the media in their obsession to defeat the "heartless right wing Bible thumpers." Good for IBD for seeing through the cloning obfuscation.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 7:33 PM
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I am a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute and the author of 12 books, including A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy, which is relevant to the issues considered by this blog.
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After they get tired of embryonic stem cells, maybe they can get taxpayer funding for perpetual motion machines to solve the energy crisis and global warming and get the same Hollywood set to endorse them.
I do wonder if this is an after-effect of the proven false "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" - that we go through bacteria, worm, fish (gill slits which are neither gills nor slits), bird, and human as we develop in the womb.
Most books still have it and I suspect it is believed by a large part of the population.
But we can't teach anything but evolution (yet they won't utter the word eugenics, although that is implicit in Darwin).
thomas: This is about whose values control society. ESCR is merely the tool.
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