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Stem Cell Update II
Hot off the presses: a stem cell paper connected to the disgraced Hwang laboratory in South Korea has been just retracted for misleading use of photos that were claimed to be of different stem cells, but were actually the same (doctored) photograph.
The NY Times had a good article a few months ago on spotting doctored […]
Stem Cell Update
Researchers in both the USA and Germany claim to have produced embryonic-like stem cells from testicular cells. The Germans published the results of their work on mice in Nature last week; the Americans claimed to have done similar things with human testes (ouch), but have not published in a peer-reviewed journal, but rather presented it […]
French Bishop Urges Vatican to Reopen Debate on Whether 1+1=2
Oh, wait, he just wants the Vatican to reconsider birth control. God save us from such an episcopate!
"Pope Paul VI banned contraception in the 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, arguing that sexual intercourse was meant for procreation and any artificial method to block a pregnancy went against the nature of the act."
"That encyclical […]
The Public's Role in Regulating Scientists
I have had this entry brewing in me for a while, but a comment in a recent post helped me sit down and actually write it down.
G.K. Chesterton has a real talent for summarizing in a single quip something that bugs me but which I could never express as felicitously as the "Apostle of Common […]
Know Thy Enemy
"Know thy enemy and know thyself, find naught in fear for 100 battles. Know thyself but not thy enemy, find level of loss and victory. Know thy enemy but not thyself, wallow in defeat every time." - Sun-Tzu
Pittsburgh pro-lifers have an opportunity to not only know their enemy, but also to inform him of […]
