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Photo: Mouse "embryo model," by Kasey Lau for the Zernicka-Goetz laboratory, via EurekAlert!

Scientists Are Close to Creating Human Embryos from Stem Cells

Once again, biotechnology is racing ahead of our capacity to intellectually digest what is happening. Read More ›
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Sacrificing Pre-Natal Wellness for Gender Ideology

We're told that applying a precautionary principle to protecting gestating babies is transphobic and akin to eugenics. Read More ›
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Mice Born with No Mother, Two Fathers: What Next?

Ostensibly the purpose would be to help with rare forms of infertility in women. But these are dual-edged technologies. Read More ›
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About Those “Synthetic Embryos”

I have no problem with this work in mice. But the scientists want to take this technology into human experimentation. Read More ›
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The Jack Kevorkian Plague

The pathogen I mean is a cultural pandemic, the embrace of doctor-prescribed suicide and of administered homicide. Read More ›
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Slouching Toward a “Brave New World”

Genetic engineering could unleash a deadly pandemic or lead to a “new eugenics” with very sharp teeth. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Shermer, by Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0].

Why Michael Shermer’s “Case for Scientific Humanism” Fails

Shermer tries to rewrite history by insisting that science is built on atheistic assumptions. Read More ›
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But Wesley, It’s a Study!

Sorry. In our ideological times, that doesn’t mean as much as it once did. Read More ›
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Cross-section of human blastocyst showing inner mass and trophoblast layers, 3D illustration
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Ethics and Embryo Research: Let the Promise-Breaking Begin (Again)

I have come to the conclusion that "the scientists" believe themselves entitled to do what they want, in the way they want. Read More ›

The Human Cost of Animal Rights Fanaticism

Animal rights activists associated with PETA set up Dr. Edward Taub as an animal abuser. Read More ›

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