Hits & Misses – 2008/12/11
Scorpios get more asthma, but not because of the stars.
Eight products account for 90% of all food allergic reactions.
The going rate for a surrogate is about $25,000. Egg donors generally receive $3,000 to $8,000.
Are there more suicides around Christmas? No.
Robert Frank has a snippy piece in the Wall Street Journal, distaining the fact that lower income women sell their eggs and their wombs to high-income couples.
He’s obsessed with class.
John, you did not relate the most important part of the original article.
Women get more for their eggs if the donor has desirable caharacteristics. For high test scores, athletic ability, good looks, etc., you can get up to $25,000 for an egg.
I think Frank doesn’t care about poor people. But he has a fixation on ridiculing the rich and the comfortable.
On pills and brains, I have this question: Why is it okay to enhance your brain power with pills, but not okay to enhace your athletic ability with pills?
Catholic Church is out today condemning in vitro.
So what should be done with all those frozen embryos? The Church admits it has no idea.
On whether healthy people should have the right to boost their brain power with pills, here is the case for by Judith Warner in the New York Times.