Straws

StrawsWe are taught to believe that everyone thinks the same way, that everyone is in control of their own mind, and that free will operates under their command. This is the paradox of living with a chronic and disabling thought disorder. We know differently. Everyone knows differently.

Is Your Diet a Cult?

You started out with good intentions—you just wanted to lose weight, feel better, … Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us, … Diet cults tend to ban some items or food groups entirely.

Dolly the Sheep-type clones ineligible for patent: appeals court

The method for cloning animals such as the famed Dolly the Sheep can be patented, but the resulting animals themselves cannot, a U.S. federal appeals court has ruled. \”Dolly’s genetic identity to her donor parent renders her unpatentable,\” Judge Timothy Dyk wrote Thursday for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. Pilar Ossorio, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School, called the decision a victory for people who thought cloning animals was morally wrong. Scientists Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell of the Roslin Institute of Edinburgh, Scotland, generated international headlines and intense ethical debates in 1996 when they created Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.

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