>Most of you are probably too young to remember the actual television series, “Dallas,” with JR, Bobby and all the Ewings. At the beginning of one season, we learned that everything we had seen and heard on the prime time soap opera in the last year was a dream. Pam Ewing woke to discover that … Continue reading
Most of you are probably too young to remember the actual television series, “Dallas,” with JR, Bobby and all the Ewings. At the beginning of one season, we learned that everything we had seen and heard on the prime time soap opera in the last year was a dream. Pam Ewing woke to discover that … Continue reading
>Scientific American published a biased little op-ed in their October 2005 “SA Perspectives” titled “Fill This Prescription” concerning pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions that they consider harmful, saying, It is tempting to wonder how far the principle of denying medicines for ethical reasons could stretch. Could one who disapproves of homosexuality refuse antiretrovirals to … Continue reading
Scientific American published a biased little op-ed in their October 2005 “SA Perspectives” titled “Fill This Prescription” concerning pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions that they consider harmful, saying, It is tempting to wonder how far the principle of denying medicines for ethical reasons could stretch. Could one who disapproves of homosexuality refuse antiretrovirals to … Continue reading
>Speaking of ethics in reporting about scientific research, there hasn’t been much coverage of the study out of New Zealand that concludes that abortion hurts women and the difficulty the authors had in finding a publisher, as noted by Stuff.co.nz , an – ? or should I say “the”? -on-line New Zealand news source: There … Continue reading
Speaking of ethics in reporting about scientific research, there hasn’t been much coverage of the study out of New Zealand that concludes that abortion hurts women and the difficulty the authors had in finding a publisher, as noted by Stuff.co.nz , an – ? or should I say “the”? -on-line New Zealand news source: There … Continue reading
>The scientific journal, Nature, devotes quite a bit of its space in the January 12, 2006 issue to two editorials and one review article concerning ethics, peer review, and the spectacular failure of both in the publication of the “results” of the Korean veterinarian, Hwang Wu Suk, in the cloning of human embryos for the … Continue reading
The scientific journal, Nature, devotes quite a bit of its space in the January 12, 2006 issue to two editorials and one review article concerning ethics, peer review, and the spectacular failure of both in the publication of the “results” of the Korean veterinarian, Hwang Wu Suk, in the cloning of human embryos for the … Continue reading
>Peter Singer and Marc Hauser make the case for abortion, clone and kill, and euthanasia, buried in an op-ed to convince us that no one needs religion to be moral in an article published in the Jerusalem Post, called “Godless morality.” (Singer and Hauser act as if none of us have heard of “Natural Law,” … Continue reading
Peter Singer and Marc Hauser make the case for abortion, clone and kill, and euthanasia, buried in an op-ed to convince us that no one needs religion to be moral in an article published in the Jerusalem Post, called “Godless morality.” (Singer and Hauser act as if none of us have heard of “Natural Law,” … Continue reading