From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 11:38:33 MDT
For those of you that don't get Eugene's Transhumantech
news there was an interesting reference today to the
release of "cloning report" from the President's Council
on Bioethics.
> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:58:27 -0400
> From: "Hughes, James" <jhughes@changesurfer.com>
> Subject: US Pres Council of Bioethics Shows its Divide
>
>
> Kass's handpicked bio-Luddite majority on the Bioethics Council shows
> itself... J.
>
> http://www.bioethics.gov/cloningreport/
>
> Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry
> The President's Council on Bioethics
> Washington, D.C.
> July 2002
>
> Here is the text from Chapter 8 Part 4 Recommendation. Remember First
> Proposal calls for prohibition of reproductive cloning and moratorium on
> therapeutic cloning. Second Proposal calls for prohibition of reproductive
> cloning and prompt allowance of therapeutic cloning with supervision and
> controls.
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> After extensive deliberation, Members of the Council have coalesced around
> the two policy proposals, as follows:
>
> The following ten Members of the Council form a majority in support of the
> First Proposal: Rebecca S. Dresser, Francis Fukuyama, Robert P. George, Mary
> Ann Glendon, Alfonso Gómez-Lobo, William B. Hurlbut, Leon R. Kass, Charles
> Krauthammer, Paul McHugh, Gilbert C. Meilaender.
>
> The following seven Members of the Council form a minority in support of the
> Second Proposal: Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Daniel W. Foster, Michael S.
> Gazzaniga, William F. May, Janet D. Rowley, Michael J. Sandel, James Q.
> Wilson.
Most of the report chapters appear to be in MS-WORD format.
(Take a minute to write them a note saying that public documents
should be in an open-source format!)
The THT digest also included an interesting review by Gavin McNett
on "Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid" by Robert J. Sternberg.
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/06/19/stupid/index2.html
I suppose we need to get all the people who signed onto the "First
Proposal" to read the book...
Robert
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