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...embryonic cells. Ethically sound adult stem cells, which have been studied for 30 years, are a proven source of medical advances, so we haven't "lost years" of treatment development. Moreover, taxpayer dollars weren't used to fund the destruction of human life in that time. It was a moral stand President George W. Bush made. Let's move on with consensus on this new research. Ronald Simpson, M.D.,University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, MOUNTAIN VIEW...
Kinsley is on solid moral ground in excoriating Bush for disallowing stem-cell research during the almost seven years of his regime. It is heartbreaking to think how many lives could have been saved had scientists been allowed more leverage in their approach to curing many of the diseases that ravage humanity. The Administration's posture on this issue is a symptom of a broader problem: the gradual incursion of personal religious beliefs into the fabric of our government. The integration of church and state is a dangerous trend threatening the personal freedoms that America has always respected. Bill Gottdenker...
...Kinsley said the moral dilemma over embryonic stem cells is not real and never was. That is not the view of James Thomson, who was the first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells and who asserted that "if human embryonic-cell research does not make you a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough." Would I be more certain about the lack of moral questions related to this research if I suffered from Parkinson's disease, as Kinsley does? I doubt it. My mother died from the disease, and my brother battles it every...
...impressed by the cool special effects. You don't really get that amusement when you're watching a movie that is all about how your government made the wrong choices and your countrymen are dying as a result. Even if the motive of a movie is to teach a moral lesson, it's not easy to stick to the facts and dramatize at the same time. It is not a simple issue of recruiting A-list actors and using emotional appeal. The great Iraq-war movie won't be appearing for quite some time, because for now it's just...
...novels have been published in China, but not without some mysterious changes. The city of Shanghai, for instance, is referred to as "H," which manages to sound even more Kafkaesque than anything Qiu could invent. But writing crime novels has allowed him remarkable freedom to limn China's shifting moral standards. "In the past, Chinese people believed in Confucianism," Qiu says. "That's basically an ethical system: what you should do and what you should not do. Then people believed in Mao and communism. In a way, that was also about what you should and should...