>More on healthcare funding and rationing, today. It’s important to remember that the Canadian government health system began rationing by limiting services years ago. The doctor in this article in the NYT is correct that it is easier to get desired and even necessary care for dogs than it is for humans. More than ten … Continue reading
More on healthcare funding and rationing, today. It’s important to remember that the Canadian government health system began rationing by limiting services years ago. The doctor in this article in the NYT is correct that it is easier to get desired and even necessary care for dogs than it is for humans. More than ten … Continue reading
>A post by Art Caplan who is a pseudoeditor but not an editor at blog.bioethics.net alerted me to Alternet, a website that is rich with blogger material. We could begin by contrasting the article complaining of the environmental toxin of the production of chicken for food with the one in support of abortion and abortionists. … Continue reading
A post by Art Caplan who is a pseudoeditor but not an editor at blog.bioethics.net alerted me to Alternet, a website that is rich with blogger material. We could begin by contrasting the article complaining of the environmental toxin of the production of chicken for food with the one in support of abortion and abortionists. … Continue reading
>The Nation’s Max Blumenthal (also available free online here)has decided that Princeton’s Robert P. George (graduate of Harvard, Oxford and recipient of many other honors and degrees) is tainting the entire institution, by causing a “lean to the right.” I agree with a statement Professor George has made: he’s a balance for Princeton’s other notorious … Continue reading
The Nation’s Max Blumenthal (also available free online here)has decided that Princeton’s Robert P. George (graduate of Harvard, Oxford and recipient of many other honors and degrees) is tainting the entire institution, by causing a “lean to the right.” I agree with a statement Professor George has made: he’s a balance for Princeton’s other notorious … Continue reading
A group of very well respected scientists, philosophers and ethicists (all involved in bioethics and stem cell research) have joined together to discuss and draft what they call a “consensus” on stem cell research, both destructive embryonic stem cell research and non-destructive, ethical non-embryonic stem cell research. The document can be accessed at the Berman … Continue reading
>Okay, it’s not as big a deal as actually getting a “Letter to the Editor” published in Scientific American, but Mr. Leonhardt responded to my letter to the NYT. (An expanded version is here.) They’ve changed “virus” to “infection” on the website. (“Bacteria” would have been better, in my opinion. But, let’s face it: I’m … Continue reading
Okay, it’s not as big a deal as actually getting a “Letter to the Editor” published in Scientific American, but Mr. Leonhardt responded to my letter to the NYT. (An expanded version is here.) They’ve changed “virus” to “infection” on the website. (“Bacteria” would have been better, in my opinion. But, let’s face it: I’m … Continue reading
>I do believe that there is a very real bias in the “mainstream” bioethics, especially in the academic world. Just as with much of the formal sciences and medicine, the belief that all humans at all stages of life are deserving of special protection from harm – the “prolife” viewpoint – is not welcome. To … Continue reading