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>Nanotechnology and Federal Funding
>Bioethics.net has a great discourse on nanotech, funding, and the effects of funding. The comments are great. Mine may not be so great, but, here it is: The fascination with, and alarm surrounding, nanotech reminds me of every environmental, medical, and socio-biological controversy I’ve read about for the last 40, uh, 30, years. The kernal … Continue reading
Nanotechnology and Federal Funding
Bioethics.net has a great discourse on nanotech, funding, and the effects of funding. The comments are great. Mine may not be so great, but, here it is: The fascination with, and alarm surrounding, nanotech reminds me of every environmental, medical, and socio-biological controversy I’ve read about for the last 40, uh, 30, years. The kernal … Continue reading
>"Witchhunt" for conservative bioethicists and biotechnologists?
>I wouldn’t be surprised. Michael Fumento, the author of one of the huge books on my shelves, Bioevolution, lost his job writing a column for the Scripps Howard News Service, due to accusations that he is “bought.” It seems that 5 years ago, he accepted grant money in order to write that book. That was … Continue reading
"Witchhunt" for conservative bioethicists and biotechnologists?
I wouldn’t be surprised. Michael Fumento, the author of one of the huge books on my shelves, Bioevolution, lost his job writing a column for the Scripps Howard News Service, due to accusations that he is “bought.” It seems that 5 years ago, he accepted grant money in order to write that book. That was … Continue reading
>Discrimination
>The New York Times published an interview with Douglas Melton, the Harvard researcher who is creating stem cell lines that are outside the guidelines for eligibility for Federal funds. He’s not sure how many cell lines there are that come under those guidelines, and he’s really fuzzy about when life begins, but he wants our … Continue reading
Discrimination
The New York Times published an interview with Douglas Melton, the Harvard researcher who is creating stem cell lines that are outside the guidelines for eligibility for Federal funds. He’s not sure how many cell lines there are that come under those guidelines, and he’s really fuzzy about when life begins, but he wants our … Continue reading
>Up to date dueling ethicists on cloning, stem cells, and embryos
>I wonder sometimes whether Peter Singer (the Australian who is tenured professor of ethics at Princeton) can really mean what he says about infants who aren’t worth protecting since Mom can always have another baby and his latest sillyness about embryos from nuclear transfer (the rest of us call it cloning). This week, Singer says … Continue reading
Up to date dueling ethicists on cloning, stem cells, and embryos
I wonder sometimes whether Peter Singer (the Australian who is tenured professor of ethics at Princeton) can really mean what he says about infants who aren’t worth protecting since Mom can always have another baby and his latest sillyness about embryos from nuclear transfer (the rest of us call it cloning). This week, Singer says … Continue reading
>Nanoethics board to address our microscopic worries
>When we think of the concerns about the effects of organic chemicals from containers in food, hormones and antibiotics in animal feed, and the problems of changing the diversity within a microenvironment, it should be reassuring that the there is a new board concerned with the ethics of nanotechnology (manipulations of materials and the creation … Continue reading
Nanoethics board to address our microscopic worries
When we think of the concerns about the effects of organic chemicals from containers in food, hormones and antibiotics in animal feed, and the problems of changing the diversity within a microenvironment, it should be reassuring that the there is a new board concerned with the ethics of nanotechnology (manipulations of materials and the creation … Continue reading
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