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>Debate on death is a "distraction"?

>The debate is only a distraction if it keeps you from doing what you want – and intend – to do in the first place. I read the Chicago Tribune article on the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision on Oregon’s law allowing those that are licensed by the State to practice medicine to prescribe … Continue reading

Debate on death is a "distraction"?

The debate is only a distraction if it keeps you from doing what you want – and intend – to do in the first place. I read the Chicago Tribune article on the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision on Oregon’s law allowing those that are licensed by the State to practice medicine to prescribe … Continue reading

>What kind of world do we want to live in?

>A most appropriate question on this day, when the Supreme Court ruled that Oregon’s laws allowing physicians to write prescriptions intended to cause the death of patients. This time, the question is asked by Kathryn Hinsch,the founder of the Womens Bioethics Project, in her “guest column” in the Seattle Post Intelligencer. The subject of the … Continue reading

What kind of world do we want to live in?

A most appropriate question on this day, when the Supreme Court ruled that Oregon’s laws allowing physicians to write prescriptions intended to cause the death of patients. This time, the question is asked by Kathryn Hinsch,the founder of the Womens Bioethics Project, in her “guest column” in the Seattle Post Intelligencer. The subject of the … Continue reading

>Korea’s (embryonic) stem cell stamp

>Thanks to blog.bioethics.net, I found this stamp that was issued by the Korean government to commemorate the scientific fraud of the (very new) century. I don’t know how long the Korean Post office will continue the page that contains the picture and story of the stamp, so you probably ought to look at it today.

Korea's (embryonic) stem cell stamp

Thanks to blog.bioethics.net, I found this stamp that was issued by the Korean government to commemorate the scientific fraud of the (very new) century. I don’t know how long the Korean Post office will continue the page that contains the picture and story of the stamp, so you probably ought to look at it today.

>Cloning fraud disaggregated

>I’m all for stem cell research, I just wouldn’t kill anyone for it or exploit and coerce young women for it. It appears that Hwang Woo Suk did both in addition to wasting human oocytes and embryos and lying about most of what he reported. Not all fraud requires outright lies. Sometimes, the deception is … Continue reading

Cloning fraud disaggregated

I’m all for stem cell research, I just wouldn’t kill anyone for it or exploit and coerce young women for it. It appears that Hwang Woo Suk did both in addition to wasting human oocytes and embryos and lying about most of what he reported. Not all fraud requires outright lies. Sometimes, the deception is … Continue reading

>Mad, bad, and dangerous to know

>I may have to change the name of the blog! Or the name of the LifeEthics.org website, altogether. Thanks to a poster on blog.bioethics.net, I read this description of the perception of scientists at the BBC Science website. Edit – Jan 31, 2006 — the link had aquired some noise in the form of a … Continue reading

Mad, bad, and dangerous to know

I may have to change the name of the blog! Or the name of the LifeEthics.org website, altogether. Thanks to a poster on blog.bioethics.net, I read this description of the perception of scientists at the BBC Science website. Edit – Jan 31, 2006 — the link had aquired some noise in the form of a … Continue reading

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