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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Can my confidence in the President's Bioethics Council drop any lower? It seems so. Check this out from Amygdala:
I'm quite open about the shameful fact that I'm inordinately fond of Star Trek -- not that I would recommend it, save on rare and fleeting occasion, and then only with vast luke-warmedness, as good science fiction, or anything other than largely nostalgia on my part -- but this is not where I advocate people go with their Inner Trekkie...:
Diana Schaub, a Loyola College professor and adviser to President Bush, is convinced that cloning and embryonic stem cell research are evil. She says this belief was formed, in part, by watching Star Trek. ...
[...]Of course, she relies only on the original series in which they "boldly go where no man has gone before." Well, perhaps not too boldly or too far.

Amygdala by way of Yglasias
See also the Schaub article in the New Atlantis

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