The Week in Review: 25 February - 3 March, A.D. 2007

The Latin Mass and the Church

On the Lenten Papal retreat, Cardinal Biffi, and the Antichrist: "pacifist, ecologist and ecumenist" (originally on LifeSite):

Anti-Christ is among us

Also from Rorate caeli, for those of us awaiting the liberation of the Latin Mass:

For the record: news from Mexico

Medical stuff

Here is a series of recent articles from the TimesOnLine. As we saw in the essay in Stem Cells Part V: Chimeras, chimeras and hybrids are part and parcel of hES cell research.
Scientists triumph in battle over ban on hybrid embryos

Nobel scientists urge fertility watchdog to back hybrid embryos

Cloning pioneer fears Britain will lose out

On a related note, also out of the UK:

Law change 'may bring designer babies'

Actually, I think it's a race to the bottom, with all the European nations (and the U.S.) in the competition:

Britain Dragging Other Countries into Ethical and Moral Abyss ~ SPUC Director

Update on Gardasil:

WorldNetDaily ran this:

CDC to STD vaccine maker: 'Back off'

Here's the original Washington Times report:

Medical Foundation Under Governor's Vaccine Order Continues To Collapse: CDC Doctor told Merck not to lobby for mandates
More from WND:

STD vaccine opposition builds in Texas
Merck gives up push for girls to get shots
HPV mandates face federal money ban

Odds and ends
This appeared in the Financial Times in 2005, and popped up recently on LifeSite. I have run into the transhumanists before in my wanderings, but this is a good summary. And, like Peter Singer and his buddies advocating infanticide, the transhumanists occupy chairs at our major universities.

The most dangerous idea on earth?

I read Mr. Steyn's book, America Alone and thought it was pretty good, though I don't agree with some of it. Much of the population demographics material echoed Pat Buchanan's Death of the West:

Mark Steyn Confirms How Wrong Dissenters of Paul VI's Humanae Vitae Have Been Says Reveiwer

No Comment.

Early-Onset Dementia May be Linked to Vasectomy, Study Suggests