Travlin’ …<\/p>\n
Sorry for the “lite” posting the last few days. I will have more soon. But fact is that lazing, shopping, and basking in the sun don’t make exciting blog material, alas. Neither does routine traveling (even when you’re wedged into a strange little jumpseat next to a lavatory that has no water and whose door keeps flopping open every time the bus hits a bump).<\/p>\n
Ah well.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, I see that James Dunlap has an article on LewRockwell.com<\/a> about free-market medicine outside the U.S. His piece is different from, but reflects the same values as, my bit on non-prescription prescription meds<\/a> in Furrin parts.<\/p>\n I also picked up an article in a local bilingual publication about stem-cell treatment. During the years that the U.S. fedgov interfered with stem-cell research*, the rest of the world zoomed ahead. Thus, it was not U.S. researchers who made the crucial discovery that skin cells could be substituted for the infamous fetal cells. Thus, Americans in need of stem-cell treatments now go to places like Costa Rica.<\/p>\n And so the empire crumbles.<\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n * I don’t, of course, think the gov should fund stem-cell or any other medical research. And I understand the moral creepiness of harvesting cells from custom-grown fetuses. I’m just talking about unintended consequences. Stem-cell medicine is just one area where other parts of the world have leaped ahead of the U.S. due to fedgov policies. And those bottled fetuses are becoming unnecessary because scientists who were free to research discovered other possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Travlin’ … Sorry for the “lite” posting the last few days. I will have more soon. But fact is that lazing, shopping, and basking in the sun don’t make exciting blog material, alas. Neither does routine traveling (even when you’re wedged into a strange little jumpseat next to a lavatory that has no water and whose door keeps flopping open every time the bus hits a bump). Ah well. In the meantime, I see that James Dunlap has an article on LewRockwell.com about free-market medicine outside the U.S. His piece is different from, but reflects the same values as, my…<\/p>\n