Fair Reporting?

The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 7: "Scientific fraud is always revolting, but it is fortunately rare, and, in the end, truth will out. But in this case, American scientists and the American media have been complicit in the fraud, because of their zeal in the politics of stem-cell and cloning research and their hostility to the Bush funding policy." --Dr. Leon Kass, recently retired chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, on the Korean human cloning scandal


Where Are the Feminists on This One?

The BBC News on Jan. 9: If this practice has been common for most of the past two decades since access to ultrasound became widespread, then a figure of 10 million missing female births would not be unreasonable. -- Canadian researcher Prabhat Jha, on the phenomenon of Indian women practicing sex-selective abortions.