nem a morte nem a vida, nem os anjos nem os principados, nem o presente nem o futuro, nem as potestades, nem a altura, nem o abismo, nem qualquer outra criatura
15.3.09
Separar a ciência da política II
Sarilhos de uns e sarilhos de outros V
13.3.09
Separar a ciência da política
«(...) What most people are unaware of is that there are three types of stem cell research: there is embryonic stem cell research (ESC), there is induced pluripotent (IPSC) research, and adult stem cell research (ASC). When Barack Obama rescinded George Bush's ban on federal funding on certain types of embryonic stem cell research he also rescinded Bush's Executive Order 13435 which had provided federal funding for induced pluripotent stem cell research using harmless adult stem cells manipulated into mimicking embryonic stem cells without the risk ESC cells entail. This is where 72 different diseases are now being remedied or cured. (...) (...)I t is well known that lab animals given embryonic stem cells routinely develop tumors and other malignant growths that eventually kill them. There is a 100 percent mortality rate among lab animals that develop these tumors. That's why George Bush banned this lethal form of research that Barack Obama, who should have known better, has now legitimized by overturning this life-saving ban. The reason that major drug companies such as Merck and Pfizer are not funding ESC research is because they have seen the research and it scared the daylights out of them. They realized that if they injected ESC cells into human beings and like lab animals, they show signs of cancers or lesions or tumors there will be huge class action suits, because they would have ignored all of the available data in research that shows that that's exactly what will happen. (...)»Problemas éticos que são hipocritamente descartados através da tal suposta separação entre ciência e política, como se a ciência - qualquer ciência, neste caso a embriologia - pudesse ser uma disciplina autónoma do saber humano e responder a todas as questões que se nos colocam na nossa passagem pela Terra e, muito em especial, às questões que se colocam aos próprios cientistas, as que emergem das suas investigações. Sobre esta matéria, ler o texto de Steve Chapman, também no Town Hall, cuja conclusão destaco:
«(...) He (o Presidente Obama) did, however, reject another option. "We will ensure," he said, "that our government never opens the door to the use of cloning for human reproduction. It is dangerous, profoundly wrong and has no place in our society, or any society."
Uma separação cruenta e com tremendas consequências.
12.3.09
Siência progrecista
Prioridades
11.3.09
Aborto por Indução do Parto
A queda de um mito
Aos poucos, mas num curtíssimo intervalo de tempo, os mitos da melhor transição entre presidências, da Administração mais competente e do melhor presidente dos EUA parecem desmoronar-se.
Apesar do cansaço alegadamente acumulado devido a uma dedicação frenética à resolução dos problemas económicos e financeiros do USA - o qual foi apresentado como justificação para a desrespeitosa recepção ao primeiro-ministro inglês -, uma dos funções da competência directa e exclusiva da presidência, a constituição da equipa do Tesouro, parece estar a ser negligenciada. A esmagadora maioria dos lugares de topo no Tesouro americano estão por ocupar, após 4 meses de transição e mês e meio de exercício de funções.
E, ao que parece, não são apenas os cargos de topo que estão por preencher: o de secretária/o recepcionista/a também está vago. Addendum: mais nomeações falhadas.
9.3.09
A religião da justissa VI
- 40 chicotadas e quatro meses de prisão para a senhora de 75 anos e para o putativo enteado;
- 60 chicotadas e seis meses de prisão para o amigo do putativo enteado.
A religião da justissa V
A jihad no nosso seio
6.3.09
A religião da justissa IV
Via Hot Air.
18.2.09
A posição conservadora sobre o aborto
16.2.09
Sarilhos de uns e sarilhos de outros IV
«(...) The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences has determined that over ninety percent of Pakistani wives have been struck, beaten, or abused sexually — for offenses on the order of cooking an unsatisfactory meal. Others were punished for failing to give birth to a male child. Dominating their women by violence is a prerogative Muslim men cling to tenaciously. In Spring 2005, when the East African nation of Chad tried to institute a new family law that would outlaw wife beating, Muslim clerics led resistance to the measure as un-Islamic. Why do things like this happen? Because Islamic clerics worldwide have spoken approvingly of wife-beating. (...) (...) Muslim men bring this religiously sanctioned violence with them when they immigrate to the West, even to the United States. The prominent American Muslim leader Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqi, former president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), has said that “in some cases a husband may use some light disciplinary action in order to correct the moral infraction of his wife…The Koran is very clear on this issue.” In 1984, Sheikh Yousef Qaradhawi, who is one of the most respected and influential Islamic clerics in the world, wrote: “If the husband senses that feelings of disobedience and rebelliousness are rising against him in his wife, he should try his best to rectify her attitude by kind words, gentle persuasion, and reasoning with her. If this is not helpful, he should sleep apart from her, trying to awaken her agreeable feminine nature so that serenity may be restored, and she may respond to him in a harmonious fashion. If this approach fails, it is permissible for him to beat her lightly with his hands, avoiding her face and other sensitive parts.” Why do they say such things? Because the permission to beat one’s wife is rooted in the Islamic holy book, the Qur'an, and Islamic tradition. The Qur'an says: “Men shall take full care of women with the bounties which God has bestowed more abundantly on the former than on the latter, and with what they may spend out of their possessions. And the righteous women are the truly devout ones, who guard the intimacy which God has [ordained to be] guarded. And as for those women whose ill-will you have reason to fear, admonish them [first]; then leave them alone in bed; then beat them…” (4:34) (...) (...) Ignoring the Islamic justifications for domestic violence harms Muslim women.»