On to-do list: Mapping the Cancer Genome

Mapping the Cancer Genome: From Scientific American: “If we wish to learn more about cancer, we must now concentrate on the cellular genome.” Nobel laureate Renato Dulbecco penned those words more than 20 years ago in one of the earliest public calls for what would become the Human Genome Project. “Either try to discover the Continue reading On to-do list: Mapping the Cancer Genome

No kidding…

Via Secular Blasphemy: Muslim veil is unhealthy for women… A new book about to be published in Denmark, “Maskeret tvang” (~”Veiled Submission”), written by women doctors and other health workers, argues that veils have a negative effect on Muslim women’s health. Whether covering the whole body or just the hair, there is a health penalty Continue reading No kidding…

Muslims against life, health, and charity

Dhimmi Watch: Muslim countries block Israel from joining Red Cross movement over unacceptable emblem: It doesn’t matter that a country is willing and able to lend its human and technical resources to a movement dedicated to aiding people in crisis situations. It’s better that lives go unsaved, lest someone be offended by the rescuers’ identity.