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>Racism, politics, and really big numbers

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ June 15, 2007 ⋅ Leave a comment

>Last week’s announcement that three different labs have managed to not only reproduce work showing that certain genes are responsible for embryonic-stem-cell-ness, but actually managed to turn adult cells into embryonic-like stem cells has been widely reported and comment upon. Times Magazine displays blatant racism and not a little naivete in their report, “Japan gets … Continue reading →

Racism, politics, and really big numbers

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ June 15, 2007 ⋅ Leave a comment

Last week’s announcement that three different labs have managed to not only reproduce work showing that certain genes are responsible for embryonic-stem-cell-ness, but actually managed to turn adult cells into embryonic-like stem cells has been widely reported and comment upon. Times Magazine displays blatant racism and not a little naivete in their report, “Japan gets … Continue reading →

>"Duty to Die" (A Bioethics "Target" if there ever was one)

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ June 15, 2007 ⋅ Leave a comment

> If the person has lost her moral agency/personhood as I argue, then the person who deserved reward is no longer present to receive it. It is the new moral entity, having done nothing, that receives the reward for what someone else did. Seriously! “Someone else?” Yesterday, I discussed the first of two “Target Articles” … Continue reading →

"Duty to Die" (A Bioethics "Target" if there ever was one)

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ June 15, 2007 ⋅ Leave a comment

If the person has lost her moral agency/personhood as I argue, then the person who deserved reward is no longer present to receive it. It is the new moral entity, having done nothing, that receives the reward for what someone else did. Seriously! “Someone else?” Yesterday, I discussed the first of two “Target Articles” in … Continue reading →