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ATTACK ON STEMCELL RESEARCH?

By Don C. Reed All but unmentioned in the recent Republican attack on the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) procedure is the devastating effect it might have on stem cell research. Consider: a young married couple hopes to have a child. Their doctor tells them about IVF,...

IS AN ACORN AN OAK?

IS AN ACORN AN OAK?

By Don C. Reed The Alabama Supreme Court recently declared that blastocysts (fertilized human eggs) were children. This decision may criminalize the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) procedure. For many years virtually all conservative Republicans said: “ life begins at...

I VOTED THIS DAY

I VOTED THIS DAY

By Don C. Reed February 9th, 2024. I looked in the mailbox and there it was , the official document: small but crucial. I took the letter to the kitchen, placed it on the table, stuck my right index finger in the upper left-hand corner of the envelope — and ripped...

OF THOMAS PAYNE, AND UNCLE JOE

By Don  C. Reed “These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.—Thomas Payne, December ...

OF ELEPHANTS, AND THE NATIONAL DEBT

By Don C. Reed What is the connection between  an  elephant and the national debt? Before  I get to that, I want to make  absolutely  clear that the financial expert  quoted in the  article  has  no connection with me  or my writing.   I just came across her testimony...

HOW THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY CAN WIN THE ELECTION

By Don C. Reed Remember that song from the classic musical, “PAJAMA GAME”? “Seven and a half cents doesn’t buy a hell of a lot. Seven and a half cents doesn’t mean a thing; but give it to me every hour, forty hours every week, and that’s enough for me to be living...

FIT TO BE PRESIDENT?

By Don C. Reed Consider the physical, moral and political attributes. A one -mile walk/run might reveal the physical fitness of the current leading candidates, former President Donald J. Trump and incumbent President Joe Biden. Let the candidates show up in gym shorts...

SPINA BIFIDA PARALYSIS, AND THE CALIFORNIA STEM CELL PROGRAM

By Don C. Reed People ask: what has the  California stem cell program done with the money entrusted to it? Here is one example. As the father of a paralyzed young man*, I sit up straight if someone mentions a possible cure for any kind of paralysis. The most common...

ON CHOOSING A PRESIDENT: the Environmental Vote

ON CHOOSING A PRESIDENT: the Environmental Vote

ON CHOOSING A PRESIDENT: the Environmental VoteBy Don C. ReedFor 15 years, (1972–86) I was an oceanarium diver for Marine World Africa USA, in Redwood City, California. Every day I worked among the sharks, dolphins, eels, seals and killer whales; I swam through beams...

Don Reed's NEW BOOK - "Science, Politics, Stem Cells and Genes: California's War on Chronic Disease"

California’s War on Chronic Disease

By Don C. Reed, World Scientific Publishing, April 2023

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