How did the United States, the world's scientific powerhouse, reach a point at which it grapples with the ethical challenges of twenty-first-century biomedicine using Bible stories, Catholic doctrine, and woolly rabbinical allegory?Answer: It elected a shitload of conservative Republicans.
Leon Kass is crazier than a fish in a car wash — Steven Pinker
h/t folkbum's r&r.
Ron Bailey's book "Liberation Biology" contains many excellent examples of the Luddites we have running things around here.
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