Monday, March 08, 2004
BUSHWHACKING SCIENCE
Leon Kass, the Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, has engineered a coup: He's gotten the White House to fire the few voices on the Commission who dissented from making policy based on Kass' famous "wisdom of repugnance." Here's an article by one of the fired members, Elizabeth Blackburn, who is a professor of biochemistry at the University of California at San Francisco and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine.
Once again, I say it: These people want you and your children to die. Kass' "wisdom of repugnance" is utterly indistinguishable from the thinking of those who opposed dissection of cadavers in the 16th century.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 8:15 AM
