Plunderbund

Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona appeared Tuesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, charging that top Bush administration officials silenced him in his public health reports. According to Carmona, during his four-year term (2002-2006) he was not allowed to speak or issue reports regarding stem cells, emergency contraception, sex education, or […]

There was a terrific article in yesterday’s Washington Post that clearly lays out the evidence that federal bans on embryonic research - such as the stem cell research ban - are actually causing an increase in birth defects. (HT: Mahablog.)
The gist of the story is that the human reproductive system is optimized for a […]

Bizzy asks the question: “When does it become OK to ask how many lives that could have been saved or improved by other stem cell research efforts have instead been sacrificed because of money diverted to the ‘Hail Mary’ black hole of embyronic stem cell research?”
First off I think to call embryonic stem cell […]