Spitzer to Give Lecture at Harvard Ethics Center - LOL!

My first reaction on reading about disgraced former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer speaking at Harvard's ethics center was to laugh out loud at the ridiculous irony of it. Even the former madam whose escort service provided Spitzer with high-end hookers recognized the irony in a letter of protest to the center, referring to him as a "man without ethics."

But what the story underscores is no laughing matter. It shows how ethically bankrupt so-called ethics centers really are, steeped as they are in a worldview devoid of any rational, objective basis for ethics or morality, that is in fact openly hostile to the mere suggestion that there IS an objective basis for ethics and morality.

That the Harvard ethics center would bring in someone like Spitzer to speak on ANY subject reveals how unqualified it is to say anything about ethics.

Looks who's really manipulating science for political purposes -- Obama's embryonic stem cell policy.

President Obama announced he would reverse President Bush's policy on federally funded embryonic stem cell research. He'll now allow the federal government to fund programs which destroy embryos for research purposes.

He claims he's returning science to it's rightful place in the arena of embryonic stem cell research according to an AP news story.

"Our government has forced what I believe is a false choice between sound science and moral values," Obama declared as he signed documents changing U.S. science policy and removing what some researchers have said were shackles on their work.

"It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda - and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology," Obama said.

In fact, the exact opposite is happening. Obama is using ideology to distort science and ethics. Science demonstrates that human life begins at conception and despite this fact President Obama says it's OK to perform medical experiments on innocent human life.

Science is also showing ways to use adult stem cell research to provide over 70 treatments for various diseases and conditions. And it's created a way to derive embryonic-like stem cells from adult stem cells. Both of these approaches avoid the ethical issues arising from the performing of experiments on innocent human beings. Of course, this is all ignored in the drive to use innocent human life as a means.

Of course, the extrapolation of this ideology was expressed in the human experiments performed by the Nazis during World War II. Of course, they would have argued they were merely trying to make medical advances.

Ideas do have consequences and dangerously so when ideology trumps ethics.

Educated fools

FOXNews reports that for the CEOs of the nation's biggest banks and corporations, it's not all in the Ivy League pedigree (Cream of the Crop Gone Sour: America's Troubled CEOs, February 17, 2009).

Duh!

I thought it was interesting that the words, "character," "morality," "ethics," and "greed" appeared nowhere in the article. That's what's wrong. Our most distinguished universities are producing educated fools with lots of knowledge but devoid of a moral framework by which to lead.

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good." (Psalm 14:1)