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DID YOU SEE THE SIZE OF THOSE HEADLINES? “Stem Cells Used to Create Artificial Liver,” the New York Times screamed on its front page. “Breakthrough! Stem Cells to One Day Create Organ for Liver Transplant,” was how the Washington Post put it. “Stem Cell Breakthrough Demonstrates Viability of New Science,” yelled the Los Angeles Times. “Stem Cell Hope for People Read More ›

Below are two links to archived audio of Wesley J. Smith’s recent radio appearances discussing stem cell research and public policy in Wisconsin and Missouri. Charlie Sykes talks with Smith about recent political ads featuring Michael J. Fox. Newsradio 620 WTMJ (WI) Derek Gilbert talks with Smith about Michael J. Fox and Amendment 2. The Eagle 93.9 KSSZ (Columbia, MO)

This article, published by The Washington Post, mentions John Miller of Discovery Institute: Miller, who has headed the State Department’s anti-slavery office since 2002, also will serve as a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. His last day at the department will be Dec. 15. The rest of the article can be found here.

Check out the new Discovery Institute blog, “Discoveryblog.org“, a compendium of many subjects that are not covered in our other Discovery blogs. “All the Views that Fit.”

This review appears in the October issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe, click here. The Language of God:A Scientist Presents Evidence for Beliefby Francis S. Collins(Free Press, 304 pages, $26) RECENTLY ASTROPHYSICIST and stalwart Darwin-defender George Coyne lectured before the largest scientific organization in the world, the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As he railed against biological arguments for Read More ›

Consider the case of Michael Savage, right-wing radio guy, and the not trivial effect he could have on the upcoming election. What’s curious about him is the tantalizing possibility — now with a smoking gun — that his three-hour daily show is an act, a put-on. According to Talkers magazine, he’s the country’s third-most-listened-to radio talk host, with 8.25 million listeners who Read More ›

In the new novel “Hunters of Dune,” biotechnologists of the future create “ghoulas” — clones made from the dead — in breeding contraptions known as “axlotl tanks.” About 100 pages into the novel, the reader is shocked to learn that axlotl tanks are really unconscious women whose bodies have been expropriated to serve the greater good as so many gestating Read More ›

Would you trust your life to U.S. government forecasts? The 2006 federal government fiscal year ended Sept. 30 with a deficit of $248 billion, which was $175 billion, or 71 percent smaller than that forecast by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in February of this year, a mere eight months earlier. The Clinton administration failed to predict the Read More ›