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AUTISM: the Thief of Speech
By Don C. Reed Alysson Muotri in his lab and office at Sanford Consortium in La Jolla, California on Tuesday May 14, 2013. Photograph by David...
View ArticleOF CROCODILES, MIKE JOHNSON, AND STEM CELL RESEARCH
By Don C. Reed As a long-time supporter of stem cell research, I was worried when social conservative Mike Johnson (R-LA) was chosen as the new Speaker of the House. He has a persuasive voice like the...
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ON CHOOSING A PRESIDENT: the Environmental Vote
ON CHOOSING A PRESIDENT: the Environmental Vote By Don C. Reed For 15 years, (1972–86) I was an oceanarium diver for Marine World Africa USA, in Redwood City, California. Every day I worked among the...
View ArticleSPINA 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...
View ArticleFIT 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...
View ArticleHOW 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...
View ArticleOF 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...
View ArticleOF 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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleATTACK 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...
View ArticleWHY I COULD NEVER VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP
By Don C. Reed Although raised in a Republican household, I could never vote for Donald Trump. This is for a variety of reasons, but today I want to touch on only one: I consider Trump an...
View ArticleDONALD TRUMP AND THE STRAWBERRY FIELDS
By Don C. Reed Wanting to earn money to buy a ring for my high school girlfriend, I got on the truck to the strawberry fields. “Dollar a row,” the foreman said, “Don’t bruise the fruit, or you don’t...
View ArticleTHE PERSONHOOD BATTLE: Why It Matters to You
By Don C. Reed Think of a little plastic dish full of salt water, a Petri dish. And floating in the water are a dozen tiny dots, almost invisible: fertilized human eggs, or blastocysts. According...
View ArticleA PRESIDENTIAL INVITATION: to the California Stem Cell Program
By Don C. Reed As a private citizen, I would like to invite President Biden to visit the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), our $8.5 billion stem cell program. Note: CIRM is a state...
View ArticleOF SHARKS, AND LIVER DISEASE
By Don C. Reed Her name was Vanessa; she was six years old, and fighting liver disease. To keep her alive, her family had to monitor every gram of food she ate. She would sometimes be so hungry, after...
View ArticleKILLER IN MY CLASSROOM?
By Don C. Reed The story I am about to tell you is true, subject only to the vagaries of memory… Call him Y. He was a student in my 8th grade English classroom, someone I had known for a long time,...
View ArticleWRESTLING A WHALE, AND OTHER POLITICS
by Don C. Reed From 1972–86, I worked as a professional scuba diver at an aquarium-zoo (Marine World Africa USA) in Redwood City, California. Most of the work was peaceful, scrubbing the tanks, feeding...
View ArticleHONORING CIRM ON ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY
By Don C. Reed The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is the embodiment of a great dream: that cures may come. Built from a citizens’ initiative, Proposition 71, CIRM expresses the...
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