November 2005

Hwang Gets a Public Relations Extreme Makeover

The saying goes, the bigger the man, the harder the fall. But it seems that Dr. Hwang, with the help of his loyal government and citizenry, may be in for a public relations extreme make-over. How quickly his fall was met with first, shame and disgrace, then explanations to justify his behavior and now it [...]

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Hwang gets a public relation extreme makeover:

(from Jennifer Lahl’s Blog) The saying goes, the bigger the man, the harder the fall. But it seems that Dr. Hwang, with the help of his loyal government and citizenry, may be in for a public relations extreme make-over. How quickly his fall was met with first, shame and disgrace, then explanations to justify his [...]

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The Radical Agenda of Human Cloners

Pro cloning biotechnology advocates have cast aside virtually all restraints. First, they said they “only” wanted access to leftover embryos remaining from in vitro fertilization treatments for use in embryonic stem cell research. Then, “all” they wanted was to be able to create new cloned human embryos from which they would derive embryonic stem cells. [...]

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Professor Hwang Woo-suk Resigns

“Being too focused on scientific development, I may not have seen all the ethical issues related to my research. “We needed a lot of ova [eggs] for the research but there were not enough ova around,” Dr Hwang said, explaining why standards may have slipped. The research conducted by his team requires large numbers of [...]

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Sex, Lies and Videotapes

Well there is no sex, or very little of it as the embryos in debate have most often been produced in the sterile, unromantic, sexless laboratory. Lies, well there is a whole load of them. And as to videotapes, well we can thank google for documenting the myriad hairy audacious lies and untruths. So, thanks [...]

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National Cancer Institute geneticists say no to Stanford and yes to Singapore

More scare tactics from Irv Weissman and co. from Stanford. Proposition 71 (which passed over a year ago) bonds have not been able to be sold to do embryo cloning because several lawsuits are pending. Two cancer researchers, who Stanford has been courting with the possible gravy train, prop. 71 bonds will provide, have declined [...]

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Boys 117 Girls 100

The one child one family policy in China has boys out numbering girls 117 to 100. In parts of northern India the score card is 140 boys to every 100 girls born. And yet, pre-implantation testing, for the sole purpose of sex selection is not only legal in the U.S., it is becoming a mainstream [...]

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Do the math ladies

As the ordeal in South Korea continues over the break up of the U.S./South Korean egg trafficking agreement, Rick Weiss has a good piece out in the Washington Post. Seems noone is still willing to address this issue of egg donation, proper informed consent, and financial compensation of women donors before running down the path [...]

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Waiting for the shoe to drop

Much of my day yesterday was spent wondering how the hearings on prop. 71 were going. Not a peep heard all day. Until this morning in my inbox was this from Paul Elias, the Associated Press Biotechnology Writer. Apparently, the judge has yet to make a decision, so I am cautiously, optimistically, hopeful. But Paul [...]

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Million Dollar Missed Opportunity

(from weeklystandard.com) IF ACADEMY AWARDS were given for the greatest lost opportunity, /Million Dollar Baby/ would have won them, too. As anyone who has been paying attention to the ruckus mounted ably and righteously by the disability rights community must now know, the movie climaxes with Frankie, Clint Eastwood’s character, euthanizing the once indomitable Maggie, [...]

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