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WHAT'S NEW    Robert L. Park   Wednesday, 16 Jan 2013   Washington, DC 

STEM CELL: SUPREME COURT WOULD RATHER NOT TALK ABOUT IT.

Last week the court refused to keep the government out of embryonic-stem-
cell research, which is thought by many to be the most promising approach 
to the treatment of numerous human diseases. About 20 years ago, however, 
anti-abortionists pushed a bill through Congress banning the use of federal 
funds for research on human embryos.  They believed the Holy Ghost bestows 
a soul on the zygote at the moment of conception, making the zygote a 
person.   The Obama administration long ago  rejected this preposterous superstition, but it was kept alive by an appeal  to the Supreme Court.  Rejection of the appeal assures continued funding, but the delay, contrived on superstitious grounds, may have cost many lives.

KYOTO: WHY DID THE EMISSIONS PROTOCOL END IN TOTAL FAILURE?

On 1 Jan 2013 the Kyoto Protocol came to its scheduled termination. It's a 
good thing; greenhouse gas emissions had only come up in response to Kyoto. 
Hmmm. Could the UN solve the obesity problem with an international 
agreement to limit food production? In an increasingly industrialized 
society the only way to effectively reduce emissions is to reduce the 
population.

Robert Park