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MIT Stem Cell Researcher Threatens Hunger Strike Over Tenure Denial (Opposes Embryonic Stem Cells)
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| 12/22/06
| Steven Ertelt
Posted on 12/27/2006 1:51:49 PM PST by wagglebee
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I guess Blacks aren't even given a pass when they interfere with the culture of death's agenda.
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posted on
12/27/2006 1:51:52 PM PST
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wagglebee
To: cgk; Coleus; cpforlife.org; Mr. Silverback; narses; 8mmMauser
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posted on
12/27/2006 1:52:29 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: 69ConvertibleFirebird; Alexander Rubin; An American In Dairyland; Antoninus; Aquinasfan; ...
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posted on
12/27/2006 1:52:57 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
Bravo, Dr. Sherley...
prayers for his cause...
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posted on
12/27/2006 1:57:33 PM PST
by
Zeppelin
(Keep on FReepin' on...)
To: wagglebee
My reading of this piece suggests that he's being wronged but not for his race but rather for his moral compass.
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posted on
12/27/2006 1:59:34 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
To: wagglebee
and what good is science and the free will that God bestowed upon us if we use it to destroy life?
personally, I think we should use science and technology to better society and further our appreciation for all of God's wonders...but then again, I don't belong to the Culture of Death...
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posted on
12/27/2006 2:00:47 PM PST
by
Zeppelin
(Keep on FReepin' on...)
To: Gay State Conservative
You are completely right and the NAACP and ACLU will say NOTHING about it.
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posted on
12/27/2006 2:01:10 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
Just wish him good luck, and let 'em diet.....
To: wagglebee
"[A] number of specialists working in the field of human reproduction have suggested that we stop using the word embryo to describe the developing entity that exists for the first two weeks after fertilization. In its place, they proposed the term pre-embryo....
"I'll let you in on a secret. The term pre-embryo has been embraced wholeheartedly by IVF practitioners for reasons that are political, not scientific. The new term is used to provide the illusion that there is something profoundly different between what we nonmedical biologists still call a six-day-old embryo and what we and everyone else call a sixteen-day-old embryo.
"The term pre-embryo is useful in the political arena -- where decisions are made about whether to allow early embryo (now called pre-embryo) experimentation -- as well as in the confines of a doctor's office, where it can be used to allay moral concerns that might be expressed by IVF patients. 'Don't worry,' a doctor might say, 'it's only pre-embryos that we're manipulating or freezing. They won't turn into real human embryos until after we've put them back into your body.'"
[Silver, Lee M. Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World. New York: Avon Books, 1997, p. 39]
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posted on
12/27/2006 2:06:46 PM PST
by
workerbee
(Democrats are a waste of tax money and good oxygen.)
To: wagglebee
If you look at his list of publications, it is not extensive.
http://web.mit.edu/be/people/sherley.htm
He may be a wonderful teacher but that is not a big factor when it comes to MIT granting tenure.
I'd guess, being black helped him, being opposed to fetal stem cell use hurt him, and the deciding factor was his lack of published research.
Mrs VS
To: Gay State Conservative
...Douglas A. Lauffenburger, the director of the Biological Engineering division, told him that he had strong recommendations letters for tenure but that he was denied it because of his views on stem cell research refusal to play the political game.
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12/27/2006 2:09:03 PM PST
by
workerbee
(Democrats are a waste of tax money and good oxygen.)
To: wagglebee
I will either see the provost resign and my hard-earned tenure granted at MIT, or I will die defiantly right outside his office, Sherley wrote in a strongly worded letter. Sherley told the Boston Globe in January 2005 that fellow professors label him stubborn instead of independent-minded"I suspect his tenure denial has little to do with either his race or his views on stem cell research, and a lot to do with his being a drama queen (and stubborn).
To: GovernmentShrinker
And now we know, the rest of the story.
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posted on
12/27/2006 2:22:02 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: VeritatisSplendor
The deciding factor was most likely his personality, seeing as how he's given to making sophomoric threats, such as this one about how he's going to die right outside the provost's office if he doesn't get what he wants. Sounds like the sort of guy nobody would really want to have around, regardless of his race, views on stem cell research, or publications.
To: GovernmentShrinker
Ummm, this is the college where Noam Chomsky walks around naked and calls it science.
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12/27/2006 2:23:47 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: wagglebee
I'm in agreement with VeritatisSplendor and GovernmentShrinker.
Dr. Sherley could have played the "high moral ground" card, but he chose to play the "race" card instead.
To: massgopguy
One man should not make or break a university. MIT is one of the best universities in the world, period.
To: Abd al-Rahiim
Name another Professor that teaches there.
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12/27/2006 2:32:21 PM PST
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massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...
Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) -- A black Massachusetts Institute of Technology stem cell researcher who doesn't support human cloning says he is planning a hunger strike for next February if the prestigious college doesn't reverse its decision to deny him tenure. Dr. James L. Sherley, an associate professor of biological engineering, says he is a victim of racism.
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12/27/2006 2:32:38 PM PST
by
Coleus
(Merry Christmas)
To: massgopguy
Dr. Paul A. Samuelson.
Dr. Robert M. Solow.
Two Economics Nobel Laureates.
Do they not satisfy your "teaches there" requirement?
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