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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...
Just a few years ago, the course would have almost filled the lecture hall’s nearly 500 seats. But while other perennially popular Core classes—like Social Analysis 10 and Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice”—have kept their enrollments steadily in the hundreds for years, Cosmic Connections has dwindled to just 72 students this semester...
Fear, rather than strategic aims, motivated the authorization of interrogation techniques that amounted to torture. Seasoned interrogators have argued that not only do such extreme interrogation techniques harm the United States’ moral standing in the world and violate U.S. law, but they actually hamper strategic aims, as they simply compel detainees to say what they what they want their captors to hear. The U.S. National Defense Intelligence College found in a recent study that “enhanced interrogation” fails to improve the quality of information extracted from detainees...
...Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of South Africa's most powerful moral voices, weighed in on Friday in an interview with the Mail & Guardian newspaper, in which he expressed distaste for the bitter personal rivalry between Mbeki and Zuma. "Why are we only concentrating on those two only?" he asked. "I have a deep sense of unease. The nation is in distress and needs a political leader who cares for them and makes them feel as though they matter...