From the same Salon.com site as above we find this link as well...
While it is true that the committee reached consensus, the truth is more complicated. The committee's arrival at consensus was anything but easily reached. After the journal article was publicized, the hospital attempted to present a united front to the public. It asked that no doctor, aside from Diekema and Daniel Gunther, the endocrinologist who performed the surgery, speak to the media. Yet Salon has spoken to pediatricians and doctors inside the Seattle hospital who remain deeply troubled by the so-called Ashley Treatment. Although they were somewhat more circumspect than critics at other medical centers, some of whom called the disfiguring treatment appalling, they agreed that disapproval inside the hospital was more acute than has previously been known.
Behind the Pillow Angel
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Hear it from the Brandeis Hoot. I thought I knew a lot about hooters until I read this.
Science is what "they" say it is, period. No discussion, decision final, it is all about feelings and algorically correct.
This comes from a real school lots of people have heard of and from somebody who is really smart, too.
Sample: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came out with a report last week that hopefully put to rest any of the unexplainable hope that some in this country had about our role (as humans) in contributing to the now noticeable trends in Global Warming. Shhhhh, it is below zero here again this morning and I am still not able to plant the palm tree I am saving for the warmup. I can't decide whether this is from a student in the third grade or his/her teacher. It all blends in, showing my deficit in caffeine this morning.
The Terry Schiavo and stem cell controversies are the final symbols of Bush’s disdain for the academic sciences. In examining these recent debates, a strange definition of life has risen from Washington. Our President is a stern believer in the “culture of life” (meaning that he does not support the right of a woman to control her own reproductive system, yet executions and destructive wars are completely fine), and as such he tried his best to circumvent the constitution in 2005 to prevent a person whose brain had been reduced capacity of a sponge to finally be at peace. This obsession with the protection of every living cell has also extended itself into the stem-cell issue. Bush has put a hold to the development of research on new stem-cell lines, meaning that our scientists are being hampered by inadequate materials in the battle against Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis, and who knows how many more diseases.
Bush administration must embrace science
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