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What would you think of someone who withheld curative medicine from a sick person?

Many governments are, in effect, doing just this. There are billions of people throughout the world suffering from various ailments who could be made well if only more money were invested in new drug research and development (R&D;). The reason this money is not invested is because all too many countries outside the United States have price controls on drugs, leading to under-investment in new and improved medicines. These same price controls also have the side effect of making drugs more expensive for U.S. consumers.

Many in Congress and the media demand more re-importation of U.S. made pharmaceutical products from countries with price controls, like Canada, or direct price controls in the U.S. These so-called solutions to the “high price of drugs’ problem” will, in fact, only worsen the situation. To solve the problem, it is important to first diagnose it correctly.

Introduction to TWG Recommendations Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center has been advocating improvements in the transportation system that unites and serves the Cascadia region for more than 12 years. Within the region, Cascadia Center has given particular attention to the need for major changes in the way that transportation is planned, funded, and governed in Central Puget Sound, which is home Read More ›

Biology textbooks diligently paper over the fact that biologists have never observed or even described in credible, theoretical terms a continually functional, macroevolutionary pathway leading to fundamentally new anatomical forms. It seems the Darwinists in Kansas are living in the past. Not the past of, say, the fossil record. The history written there tells of the abrupt appearance of major Read More ›

Ingrid Newkirk, the alpha wolf over at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), has just issued a classic non-apology “apology” for PETA’s odious “Holocaust on Your Plate” Campaign, which explicitly compared eating meat to participating in the gassing of millions of Jews. The purported equation between the Holocaust and normal practices of animal husbandry wasn’t presented between Read More ›

This article, published at The Seattle Times, mentions the Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute: Seattle’s Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute is helping promote expansion of train service to Vancouver from one run a day to as many as a half dozen.

The Privileged Planet National Premiere at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History June 23, 2005 CSC Fellows Guillermo Gonzalez (left) and David Berlinski (right) greet guests as they arrive for the premiere. Discovery Institute President Bruce Chapman (left) speaking with guests before the film begins. Jay Richards (left) and Guillermo Gonzalez answered questions following the film. Following the Read More ›

In this issue of Discovery Institute’s online technology newsletter, Senior Fellow John Wohlstetter addresses two decisions of the United States Supreme Court, both released June 27. The first held that cable providers, unlike telephone companies, cannot be forced to offer Internet access to their competitors. The second held that “peer-to-peer” network providers who knowingly aid copyright infringement can be held Read More ›

Click here to read a brief interview with Dr. Jonathan Wells. This interview with Dr. Jonathan Wells was conducted in June 2005 by Daniel Cervera for the Intelligent Design Undergraduate Research Center.

This article, published by The Christian Science Monitor, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John West:

The Seattle-based Discovery Institute distributes a DVD, “Icons of Evolution,” that encourages viewers to doubt Darwinian theory.

One example from related promotional literature: “Why don’t textbooks discuss the ‘Cambrian explosion,’ in which all major animal groups appear together in the fossil record fully formed instead of branching from a common ancestor – thus contradicting the evolutionary tree of life?”

Such questions too often get routinely dismissed from the classroom, says senior fellow John West, adding that teachers who advance such questions can be rebuked – or worse.

“Teachers should not be pressured or intimidated,” says Mr. West, “but what about all the teachers who are being intimidated and in some cases losing their jobs because they simply want to present a few scientific criticisms of Darwin’s theory?”

IF THERE WERE EVER any doubts that the National Academy of Sciences is pursuing an “anything” goes approach to biotechnological research, they were erased by the organization’s recently published tome, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. The purported purpose of Guidelines is to create voluntary ethical protocols to govern human embryonic stem cell and therapeutic cloning research — “to Read More ›