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Clean-Air Laws and Tree-Planting Cause Increased Air Pollution?

September 24, 2004

A major source of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), precursors of ozone pollution, is tree leaves, says a report in EurekAlert. Surprisingly, the increase in trees due to abandoned farms has worsened the pollution. Industry-caused nitrogen-oxygen (NOx) compounds also lead to ozone, and it is not clear how these sources interact. Nevertheless, it appears that reductions […]

Politics and Ethics

Letter: The Case Against Embryonic Stem Cell Research

September 3, 2004

Sometimes the letters to the editor are the most interesting parts of a magazine. Read what John T. Durkin says about embryonic stem cell research in response to an April letter by another scientist: In his Letter “Human being redux” (16 April, p. 388),2 M. S. Gazzaniga constructs his defense of human embryonic stem cell […]

Politics and Ethics

Adult Stem Cells Might Restore Hearing

August 27, 2004

A report from Marine Biological Laboratory found that adult stem cells show promise for restoring inner ear hair cells (see 08/09/2004 headline). The tests, done on mice, might lead to treatment of hearing loss and balance disorders that affect 28 million Americans. A few days earlier, Jonathan Knight, in Nature, worried over the […]

Politics and Ethics

Interview

August 24, 2004

Lest anyone suspect that atheism is no longer an issue, it’s “Reign of Terror Week” on The History Channel. No fictional horror film could match what this series is revealing. The episode Inside North Korea is a must see about the unbelievably horrible atrocities going on now in one atheist regime under the […]

Politics and Ethics

AIDS Policy: Morality a Casualty at the Intersection of Politics and Big Science

July 15, 2004

A news item in the July 15 issue of Nature1 seems to take sides against President Bush’s AIDS policy. The United States, the largest donor for AIDS prevention and treatment, “is promoting a mantra known as ABC: abstinence, be faithful and use condoms.” Although it would seem these simple preventative steps would quickly diminish the […]

Human Body

Babies Walk in the Womb

June 29, 2004

New vivid ultrasound imaging technologies reveal a nursery of activity inside the womb, reports the BBC News. Click the link to see the amazingly clear pictures. Unborn babies have been observed stretching, kicking and leaping from 12 weeks, before the mother is aware, and “From 26 weeks, they appear to exhibit a whole range of […]

Politics and Ethics

Science Remembers Reagan

June 11, 2004

In commemoration of Ronald Reagan on the day of national memorial service, Science Now reproduced four quotes from the former President’s policy statements on science. The leftist editors of the Darwin Party mouthpiece Science couldn’t resist dredging up the oft-ridiculed quote about trees causing air pollution, which they cited from the leftist-environmentalist Sierra Club’s magazine. […]

Dumb Ideas

The Evolution of Infidelity

June 7, 2004

The BBC News placed a sultry photo of a likely-undressed man and woman about to kiss alongside the headline of a story, “Genes may be to blame for infidelity.” They report on the speculation by Tim Spector (Twin Research Unit, St. Thomas Hospital) that “if one of a pair of twins had a history of […]

Early Man

Modern Cavemen Found

June 1, 2004

National Geographic News has a remarkable true story about some families that lived underground in the darkness and dampness of a cave for nearly two years in recent times. And now, the rest of the story: they were Jews hiding out from the Nazis. This incredible story of survival in the midst of danger points […]

Education

Academic Freedom Applied Unequally

June 1, 2004

In the June ICR Impact article, Dr. Jerry Bergman tells a tale of two professors. One, a philosophy professor, has full academic freedom to dismantle the religious faith of his students (one of his converts was Michael Shermer, now editor of Skeptic Magazine). The other, a Christian anatomy professor, was forbidden by the courts to […]

Health

Stem Cell Cover-Up?

May 24, 2004

Stem cells, most have heard, hold promise for many life-saving cures. Michael Fumento in Insight Magazine claims that while adult stem cells have shown many positive results, the media and science establishments tend to hype the benefits of embryonic stem cells while glossing over the ethical and moral problems they present. Recently, Nature1 […]

Bible and Theology

Does Darwinism Contribute to Sexual Deviancy?

May 17, 2004

Joan Roughgarden (Stanford U.) is a transsexual biologist. Although a convinced Darwinian, “she” claims to have disproved Darwin’s theory of sexual selection (see 02/26/2003 headline). Two reviews of her book Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender and Sexuality in Nature and People (University of California Press, 2003) appeared recently, one in Nature1 and another in Science.2 The […]

Education

Montana Schools Not Allowed to Question Darwinism

May 13, 2004

“Objective origins” is against the law in Darby, Montana (see 02/27/2004 headline). A policy change proposed by a local minister would have encouraged students to “analyze scientific strengths and weaknesses of existing scientific theories, including the theory of evolution.” It didn’t lose because of a vote on the policy, or because of the threats of […]

Education

Italy Waffles on School Darwinism

April 29, 2004

It’s not just an American thing; the politicians and scientists in Italy, also, are polarizing around Darwin. The education ministry just dropped a requirement to teach evolution in elementary and middle schools as part of a major overhaul of education guidelines. A news brief in the April 28 issue of Science1 claims that pressure “may” […]

Politics and Ethics

Eugenics Documentary Opens at Holocaust Museum

April 22, 2004

Michael Ollove at the Baltimore Sun reports on a new exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Museum entitled Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. The exhibit shows a 1937 Nazi propaganda film that invokes the law of natural selection as support for weeding out the unfit. Ollove writes, The narrator declares that “we humans have sinned […]

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