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Steven Crowder

Embryonic Stem Cell FUN! (Crazy Pete Returns)

by Steven Crowder

I know that embryonic stem cell research can be a touchy subject, so I opted to handle this one with both sensitivity and tact. Those are just the ABC’s of me. However, the truth of the matter is that our “opinions” on the subject don’t really matter. Embryonic stem cell research has never gone very well and few people have shown an interest in investing in it.  Logically, that alone should make it an open and shut case…


… But who needs logic when you’ve got big Government, right? (more…)

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Posted Jun 19th 2009 at 11:52 am in Entertainment, News, Politics, Video | One Comment

Doug TenNapel

Tax Dollars Fund Human Experimentation

by Doug TenNapel

“You can’t go from an is to an ought.” That’s a philosophical consensus from Christians like C.S. Lewis to Atheists like David Hume. Science deals in the realm of the “is.” It looks at a clump of cells and can only make measurements, experiment and fulfill or deny predictions. Those cells may be of a human embryo, a living child, a consenting adult or an adult Jew being experimented upon in Nazi Germany.

The results of science are indifferent to the ethics involved. A scientist can experiment on an unwilling adult and get perfectly scientific results from his work. That’s because science has nothing to say about ethics. Ethics are philosophical, and how we act on what is true is determined by other disciplines like theology, epistemology or philosophy. (more…)

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Posted Mar 12th 2009 at 5:11 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 76 Comments