States stepping in to underwrite stem cell scienceWASHINGTON — A growing number of states are creating programs to aid human embryonic stem cell research in the absence of congressional support for the promising but controversial work.
Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, a Republican, signed a bill Thursday to spend $15 million for stem cell research. Maryland is the fifth state since 2004 to approve spending taxpayer money on such research.
California, Connecticut, Illinois and New Jersey also have approved state-... (more)
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Dr. "Doom" Pianka Speaks: Full TranscriptRelying on a transcript from audio recorded during Dr. Eric Pianka's presentation at the 109th meeting of the Texas Academy of Science March 2-4, The Pearcey Report has first-hand documentation on what the controversial ecologist said regarding a number of issues, including taxes, children, forced sterilization, overpopulation, economic growth, and more.
News of Dr. Pianka's views broke when scientist and author Forrest Mims published a March 31 article in The Citizen Scientist. I... (more)
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Anti-depressant 'link to still-born babies'Pregnant women who take certain powerful anti-depressants are twice as likely to have stillborn babies, scientists said yesterday.
A study involving almost 5,000 Canadian mothers showed those who had taken drugs such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft, known collectively as selective serotonin
re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs), were also more likely to have of babies of low birth weight or born prematurely.
Those given the anti-depressants, taken by approximately... (more)
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Man vs. MachineUSU prof: robots will dominate, and countdown is underway
The division between the two parties will become so heated that assassinations and intrigue will culminate with a war unlike any the world has ever seen. The number of fatalities will be so high that the event will be referred to as “gigadeath.”
De Garis’ 2005 book “The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively I... (more)
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Dr. Death & The Religion Of Genocide: Disciple of Pianka goes further, wants 100% of humans deadThe elite have created a religion of genocide and the nation's universities are the churches for the communication of an environmental jihad that threatens to decimate the human species as we know it.
The furore surrounding the comments of Professor Eric R. Pianka, who told a crowd at Arlington UT that 90% of the world population need to be culled to solve overpopulation, have been characterized on the one hand by an expected outrage but on the other by a sycophantic mainstream me... (more)
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Pianka: Charles Manson times ten to the 9th?While this isn't exactly a normal topic that I cover, I think this is definitely worth reading for anyone interested in technology, science, or humanity in general.
In a recent meeting at the Texas Academy of Science, Professor Eric R. Pianka was honored after he advocated the death of 5 billion people on the planet to save the Earth. Dr. Shawn Carlson who is the Executive Editor and Founder of the Society for Amateur Scientists posted this compelling editorial on the dangers ... (more)
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Scientists cheer holocaust wish: Texas academy honors professor who wants 90% of human race exterminated by EbolaWhat would happen if a world-renowned scientist and evolutionary ecologist told hundreds of his colleagues that 90 percent of the human race needed to be wiped out by exposure to Ebola or some other deadly virus?
Apparently, according to a scientist who claims to have witnessed such a remarkable event one month ago, the fiend would get a standing ovation and an award.
That's the story being told by Forrest Mims III, a member of the Texas Academy of Science, chairman... (more)
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U Of Texas Professor Says Mass Death Is ImminentAUSTIN -- A University of Texas professor says the Earth would be better off with 90 percent of the human population dead.
"Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine," Eric Pianka cautioned students and guests at St. Edward's University on Friday. Pianka's words are part of what he calls his "doomsday talk" - a 45-minute presentation outlining humanity's ecological misdeeds and Pianka's predictions about how nature, or perhaps humans themselves, will exterminate all bu... (more)
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12-Year-Old Boy Suspended Because His Mother Refused To Drug HimThe case of a 12-year-old Longueuil boy suspended from school when his mother refused to give him Ritalin has sparked concerns over who is in charge of the medicine cabinet.
Do parents have the right to say "no" when their child's school says they need prescription drugs?
"Absolutely, they do," said Montreal family law lawyer Alan Stein.
However, Stein said, some parents second-guess themselves when a teacher or school social worker recommends Ritalin... (more)
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Top Scientist Advocates Mass Culling 90% Of Human PopulationA top scientist gave a speech to the Texas Academy of Science last month in which he advocated the need to exterminate 90% of the population through the airborne ebola virus. Dr. Eric R. Pianka's chilling comments, and their enthusiastic reception again underscore the elite's agenda to enact horrifying measures of population control.
Pianka's speech was ordered to be kept off the record before it began as cameras were turned away and hundreds of students, scientists and professors... (more)
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Harvard medical ethicists speaks about genetic engineering at UniversityNo more blind people. A world where every male is six inches taller if he chooses to be. The ability to concentrate longer - without the help of medication.
Those possibilities, and others, were discussed by Dan Brock, director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the Harvard Medical School. The potential of those dramatic changes hinge upon genetic engineering, which Brock spoke about to a packed room of about 80 people at the Kansas Union Thursday night.
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Kansas House Rejects 'Hybrid' Cloning BanA proposed ban on human-animal hybrids died Friday when the House cut the heart out of a bill and ended debate early on the issue.
The vote was 63-52 against the proposal from Rep. Mary Pilcher Cook, R-Shawnee, to make it a felony to create or attempt to create a hybrid embryo or "non-human life form" with human brain tissue. A first offense would be punished by up to five years and one month in prison and a fine of $1 million.
Concerns about such hybrids, or "chime... (more)
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Thought Experiments: When the Singularity is More Than a Literary Device: An Interview with Futurist-Inventor Ray KurzweilIt’s not clear to me whether the Singularity is a technical belief system or a spiritual one.
The Singularity–a notion that’s crept into a lot of skiffy, and whose most articulate in-genre spokesmodel is Vernor Vinge–describes the black hole in history that will be created at the moment when human intelligence can be digitized. When the speed and scope of our cognition is hitched to the price-performance curve of microprocessors, our "prog-ress" will double... (more)
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Author sees a future where biology and technology uniteSINGULARITY: The culmination of the merger of our biological thinking and existence with our technology, resulting in a world that is still human but that transcends our biological roots. There will be no distinction, post-Singularity, between human and machine or between physical and virtual reality.
Ray Kurzweil made a name for himself predicting our technological future. He foresaw the World Wide Web and a time when a computer would beat a human at chess. Bill Gates calls him ... (more)
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Shock Therapy For Kids: Torture or Cure?“This has saved all our children's lives”, said a shaken Dorothy Mirro in Melville today.
She was among twenty emotional parents supporting controversial shock-therapy treatment.
“The school is a god-send. My wife and I suffer. You don't know what it's like to have a violent son who could kill you--but who you dearly love.”
The school that Jenkin Washington speaks of, The Rotenberg Center, is in Massachusetts but approved by Ne... (more)
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Banned depression tablets are still being prescribed to thousands of children Banned antidepressants are being handed out to thousands of children by doctors because they face waits of up to 10 months to see a psychiatrist.
Family doctors have revealed that they are forced to hand out "happy pills" to children as young as 13 suffering depression while they languish on waiting lists to see specialists, despite serious safety concerns of doing so.
The antidepressant Seroxat and similar drugs, called SSRIs, were restricted for children's use by... (more)
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Columnist arrested after confessing to killing suffering auntA newspaper columnist who confessed to killing a terminally ill relative has been arrested by police on suspicion of murder. Last month Maureen Messent, 67, used her column in the Birmingham Mail to say that she had given her great aunt, who was stricken by cancer, a fatal dose of morphine more than 30 years ago.
Ms Messent, of Balsall Heath, Birmingham, was arrested in the city on Thursday by police from Devon and Cornwall, where the columnist said the killing took place. She was... (more)
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Holland To Allow ‘Baby Euthanasia’WHEN Frank and Anita’s daughter Chanou was born with an extremely rare, incurable illness in August 2000, they knew that her life would be short and battled against the odds to make it happy.
They struggled around the clock against their baby’s pain. “We tried all sorts of things,” said Anita, a 37-year-old local government worker. “She cried all the time. Every time I touched her it hurt.”
Chanou was suffering from a metabolic di... (more)
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Missouri to vote on ban on human genetic engineeringThe Elliot Institute, directed by anti-abortion activist David Reardon, and the "Coalition to Regulate Human Engineering and Human-Animal Crossbreeding" (which is the Elliot Institute and the Life Issues Institute) have put an initiative on the November 2006 ballot to amend the Missouri constitution to ban transgenics, cloning and human genetic engineering. The initiative is called “Regulation of Human-Animal Crossbreeds, Cloning, Transhumanism, and Human Engineering Is Reserved to the Pe... (more)
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The savage solution: Don't be fooled by those who want to create super-humans - soon we'll all have to followIf I were to tell you that there are a bunch of people who want to turn you into a machine, you'd probably think I was crazy. But if you don't believe me, read the report published this month by Demos and the Wellcome Trust, ominously titled Better Humans?. The authors of this collection of essays wax lyrical about the imminent arrival of a range of technologies that they claim will change human nature itself, and for the better. Memory-enhancing drugs, genetic selection of children, neural impl... (more)
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Science's new blend mixes man and beastWASHINGTON -- Not on George W. Bush's watch.
In his State of the Union address last month, the president vowed to pursue legislation to outlaw all forms of "human/animal hybrids," a what-the-heck phrase that may have left Americans wondering if Bush was asking Congress to ban mermaids and centaurs.
It was, instead, a reference to the latest debate over the definition of human life and where to draw the line in merging human and animal cells and genes.
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The Pursuit of Enhancement: The latest from Brave New Britain.In a book that is plainly designed to enhance the case for enhancing humans, a leading think tank in the UK has launched a book called Better Humans? The Politics of Enhancement and Life Extension. It includes chapters that raise problems, but the first section is simply called "the case for enhancement," and that's the tone of the book. You can download it free of charge.
The subtitle might seem to suggest that... (more)
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Groups respond to NPR report hospital euthanized Katrina patients Anti-euthanasia groups are responding to National Public Radio reports claiming that New Orleans hospitals gave patients lethal doses of pain killers during Hurricane Katrina.
Rumors of patient euthanasia began to spread soon after Katrina struck, but NPR reporter Carrie Kahn claimed in a February 16 All Things Considered report that the news agency had reviewed unreleased court documents relating to the attorney general's probe of Memorial Medical Center. Memorial was surrounded... (more)
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TMAP, medication algorithm horrors, and the drugging of our childrenIn an Oct. 17, 2005 meeting, Director Charles Currie announced that the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) no longer endorses the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP). Upon hearing this news, the Government Accountability Project and numerous other watchdog groups breathed a huge sigh of relief: Finally. In a nutshell, TMAP embodies everything that is wrong with mainstream medicine and the government's relationship with Big Pharma, and, in the opinion of many, ... (more)
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The Pentagon Plan to Create Mutant ''Super-Soldiers''The great wizard, leader of the Wise, once known to all the world as a force for good, has turned bitter, fearful--and ambitious. Aping the ways of the evil he once fought--brutality, dominance, greed, terror--he descends to his secret laboratory, where, with black arts of alchemy and fiendish technology, he breeds a race of mutant warriors, "iron bodied and iron willed": fierce fighters who can attack day and night, without rest, their combat spirit kept soaring by spikes of lightning from the ... (more)
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Babies to be given 25 vaccinations in a yearBabies are to be given 25 vaccinations in a year in a move which sparked fears of 'immunisation overload'.
The current 21 will be increased by three of pneumococcal vaccine - against meningitis, blood poisoning and pneumonia - and a booster against Hib, an infection that can cause bacterial meningitis.
Are these jabs really necessary? Tell us your views in reader comments below.
Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson said the extra vaccinations wou... (more)
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Banned drugs still being prescribed for childrenTens of thousands of children are still being prescribed powerful antidepressants despite guidance that they should not given to patients under 18 because of serious safety concerns.
Campaigners warned that vulnerable teenagers were being treated with a potentially dangerous "chemical cosh" of drugs because of long waiting lists for more suitable therapies such as counselling.
More than 85,000 prescriptions were given to children in 2004 for antidepressants that the... (more)
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