January 30, 2002
Future Reports and Statements from the President’s Council on Bioethics
Council Calls for Ban on Oysters on the Half Shell
"They’re just real slimy and icky," declared Leon Kass, Chairman of the President’s Bioethics Council. "Especially the raw ones. I mean….BLEH!"
President’s Council Comes Out Strongly Against Spandex Leggings with Stirrups
"I was standing in the Safeway checkout line behind some woman wearing these things, and I had to turn away before I hurled," explained Dr. Leon Kass, Chairman of the President’s Bioethics Council. "Seriously, it looked like eight cats fighting in a garbage bag!"
Bioethics Council Recommends House Arrest for Mariah Carey
Council Chairman Leon Kass presented the council’s findings in a strongly worded statement, "I mean, did you SEE "Glitter?" It was horrible beyond belief, and now she’s going to be in a movie with Marisa Tomei?! Have these people no sense of decency?"
Emergency Research Funding Needed to Eradicate "That Gunky Stuff that Feels Like Paste In Your Mouth When You Wake Up," Declares President’s Council
"Hello! You’re telling me we can put a man on the moon and I still gotta wake up feeling like I slept face-down in a vat of rubber cement? What’s up with that?" queried Leon Kass, Council Chairman.
"In crucial cases…repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power fully to articulate it. [...] In this age in which everything is held to be permissible so long as it is freely done…repugnance may be the only voice left that speaks up to defend the central core of our humanity. [...] We are repelled by the prospect of cloning human beings not because of the strangeness or novelty of the undertaking, but because we intuit and feel, immediately and without argument, the violation of things that we rightfully hold dear."
From "The Wisdom of Repugnance," by Leon Kass, current Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics.
Council Calls for Ban on Oysters on the Half Shell
"They’re just real slimy and icky," declared Leon Kass, Chairman of the President’s Bioethics Council. "Especially the raw ones. I mean….BLEH!"
President’s Council Comes Out Strongly Against Spandex Leggings with Stirrups
"I was standing in the Safeway checkout line behind some woman wearing these things, and I had to turn away before I hurled," explained Dr. Leon Kass, Chairman of the President’s Bioethics Council. "Seriously, it looked like eight cats fighting in a garbage bag!"
Bioethics Council Recommends House Arrest for Mariah Carey
Council Chairman Leon Kass presented the council’s findings in a strongly worded statement, "I mean, did you SEE "Glitter?" It was horrible beyond belief, and now she’s going to be in a movie with Marisa Tomei?! Have these people no sense of decency?"
Emergency Research Funding Needed to Eradicate "That Gunky Stuff that Feels Like Paste In Your Mouth When You Wake Up," Declares President’s Council
"Hello! You’re telling me we can put a man on the moon and I still gotta wake up feeling like I slept face-down in a vat of rubber cement? What’s up with that?" queried Leon Kass, Council Chairman.
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