Slough (meaning muddy field), England, is not a lovely place. It is east of London, a bit beyond Heathrow Airport — a glum commuter town. The BBC, in a made-for-television social experiment, “Making Slough Happy,” is trying to make Slough a happier place by giving the town group therapy, bizarre as that may seem. I am all for happiness (mine Read More ›
MUCH OF THE CURRENT DEBATE over what is generally known as therapeutic cloning—that is, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloning conducted for research purposes rather than reproduction—centers on the nature of the thing that is created by the cloning process. Until recently, this issue wasn’t controversial: Cloning, it was widely agreed, created a new human embryo. Thus, in 1997, President Read More ›
Editor’s note: The Cascadia Center has written a series of articles examining the state’s infrastructure deficit. This is the second article of the series, which is being published exclusively by the Puget Sound Business Journal. Previously in this space, we argued that to stave off the threat of blackouts, Washington will likely have little choice but to build several fossil-fuel Read More ›
This article, published by The New York Sun, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: How I wish the award ceremony had been televised on C-Span or elsewhere so that the nation could have heard the warning hurled by the man who introduced Mr. Hentoff, Wesley Smith. Mr. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in California who Read More ›
Original Article When President Bush declared his support for the teaching of Intelligent Design (ID) theory in public schools along with Darwinian evolution, both he and the theory itself drew a lot of criticism. Among the many lines of attack the critics launch, one theme remains strikingly constant: the notion that ID is a Trojan Horse of Christian fundamentalists whose Read More ›
Original Article My new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science, addresses many topics, ranging from endangered species to the alleged warfare of religion and science. But two in particular have repeatedly come up in radio interviews: global warming and intelligent design (I have chapters on both). Most on the Right are agreed on global warming: It’s mostly politics dressed Read More ›
Original Article The issue: Should public schools teach “intelligent design,” the theory that the universe and its life forms are so complex that a higher cause must have been involved in making them? ( Related: Read previous columns) Bob : Cal, I’m going to stray from the consensus liberal line on the issue of intelligent design. The Dover, Pa., school Read More ›
This article, published by the Chicago Tribune, mentions Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture: However, several institute fellows are on the center’s advisory board, including such prominent ID advocates as William Dembski and Michael Behe, and Luskin recently became the program officer for public policy and legal affairs at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. The rest of Read More ›
Kyeong-Sook Cha and Soon-Hee Ma, two defectors from North Korea, testified for the House Committee on International Relations, and provided firsthand accounts of widespread tragedy occurring in the Sino-North Korean border areas. In order to avoid the massive starvation resulting from North Korea’s failed economy, the daughters of these women had escaped to China to earn money for food. When Read More ›