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Mitochondria replacement prohibited

mardi 16 février 2016 à 01:00

Congress has prohibited mitochondria replacement (to make a healthy embryo) in the US.

This appears to be SCROTUS at work.

I think that public funds should not be spent on fertility treatments. Public policy should aim for a lower birthrate, as long as the human population is too high and still rising.

The US birth rate is low enough for population stability, if it were not for immigration; but since we do have immigration, and the US population is still rising, we should aim to reduce both causes of population increase.

War on Drugs

mardi 16 février 2016 à 01:00

Judge Paul Cassell is begging Obama to give clemency to the man that Cassell was required to sentence to 55 years in prison.

Tracking by data analysis company

mardi 16 février 2016 à 01:00

A data analysis company tracked 16,000 people at the Iowa caucuses.

I've read elsewhere that data brokers do reassociate these profiles with people's names, by correlating data from various sources.

Flint's toxic water

mardi 16 février 2016 à 01:00

Snyder's top aides were informed about Flint's toxic water within weeks.

US prisoners' phone calls

mardi 16 février 2016 à 01:00

US prisoners' phone calls are often recorded — even the calls with their lawyers, which are supposed to be private.