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The most negative campaign ad ever
There ought to be daisies. Art Caplan posted the YouTube version of the most negative campaign ad I’ve ever seen, over at the blog.bioethics.net site. The ad has three people, telling us about their future with disease. Notice: Each uses the phrase “stem cells,” without specifying what kind of stem cells. None of them predict … Continue reading
>Measuring a Universe without God
>Richard Dawkins was the guest on the second hour of Science Friday on October 6, 2006. The Dawkins interview follows a series of interviews with United States scientists who are this year’s Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine or Physiology. I love this stuff: the discussion of basic science, finding patterns that explain … Continue reading
Measuring a Universe without God
Richard Dawkins was the guest on the second hour of Science Friday on October 6, 2006. The Dawkins interview follows a series of interviews with United States scientists who are this year’s Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine or Physiology. I love this stuff: the discussion of basic science, finding patterns that explain … Continue reading
>Embryonic Stem Cell Review
> The ethical, political, and financial commotion has overshadowed the field’s scientific progress, which researchers say is accelerating. Opening with the comment that the policy debate has dominated the discussion of science, The Journal of Cell Biology has a review article covering the current state of embryonic stem cell research (ESC), “The action behind the … Continue reading
Embryonic Stem Cell Review
The ethical, political, and financial commotion has overshadowed the field’s scientific progress, which researchers say is accelerating. Opening with the comment that the policy debate has dominated the discussion of science, The Journal of Cell Biology has a review article covering the current state of embryonic stem cell research (ESC), “The action behind the words: … Continue reading
An Ethicist on Who Owns Your Body
For a look at the thinking behind the debate, work your way through Alta Charo’s essay and/or the audio interview in the New England Journal of Medicine. (free, online) (She’s the one who called Wesley Smith on his “human-centric” views and the rest of us in the right wing and pro-life community on our “endarkenment” … Continue reading
>More on challenge to WARF patent (on human beings)
>Okay, the patent being challenged is on the products of the destruction of human beings – embryonic stem cells. The Scientist has an article by Cathy Tran outlining the objections to the patents. If nothing else, these objections put a lie to the argument that embryonic stem cells were only discovered in 1998, so we … Continue reading
More on challenge to WARF patent (on human beings)
Okay, the patent being challenged is on the products of the destruction of human beings – embryonic stem cells. The Scientist has an article by Cathy Tran outlining the objections to the patents. If nothing else, these objections put a lie to the argument that embryonic stem cells were only discovered in 1998, so we … Continue reading
Frankenbunnies, non-brain dead organ donation, cloning, and PVS guinea pigs
Isn’t it amazing how many of the most controversial news and public policy issues revolve around bioethics and medicine? I’ve noted before that all of the controversies (like those mentioned above, from the days surrounding the weekend of October 8-9, 2006) are actually only one: which humans will receive society’s protection of the inalienable right … Continue reading
>Plan B compared to withdrawal method
>The British Medical Journal had a great editorial by Anna Glasier published earlier this month objecting to the false premise that Plan B will prevent abortions. Unfortunately, it’s subscription only, but the excerpt is here. It’s odd that the Brits are so interested in our Federal Food and Drug Administration. More from that editorial: Even … Continue reading
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