Selling Cells

Two wrongs don’t make a right.    Unless, of course, you are able to develop a celebrity driven media campaign and bullshit your way into some government grant money. Then wrong and right no longer matter.   Such is the case with embryonic stem cell research.   After a barrage of well funded, impassioned pleas by [...]

Human Waste

American aphorist Mason Cooley is quoted as saying “Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.” Perhaps if he was still alive today he would revise his statement to say “Nature is overcome by turning humans into garbage.” And if he wouldn’t say it, I sure will. The unfortunate and ghastly truth is that [...]