archives

Archive for

>Wesley Smith reviews Physician Assisted "Suicide"

>Bioethics.com, the blog of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity published Wesley Smith’s excellent review of a British report on so-called “Physician Assisted Suicide.” PAS is not medicine in any sense of the word. Medicine, at the very least involves the intention of bringing health to the body and relief from unpleasant symptoms. It … Continue reading

Wesley Smith reviews Physician Assisted "Suicide"

Bioethics.com, the blog of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity published Wesley Smith’s excellent review of a British report on so-called “Physician Assisted Suicide.” PAS is not medicine in any sense of the word. Medicine, at the very least involves the intention of bringing health to the body and relief from unpleasant symptoms. It … Continue reading

>Mind Whiplash

>Read the discussion about women’s sufferage at Vox Populi and then go read the eulogies at the Women’s Bioethics Project blog. Buckle your (mental) seatbelt first. (The mention of “airbags” seemed to risky.) (“Vox Day” and the posters at Vox Populi are not representative of libertarians or Libertarians, by the way.) I explained my philosophy … Continue reading

Mind Whiplash

Read the discussion about women’s sufferage at Vox Populi and then go read the eulogies at the Women’s Bioethics Project blog. Buckle your (mental) seatbelt first. (The mention of “airbags” seemed to risky.) (“Vox Day” and the posters at Vox Populi are not representative of libertarians or Libertarians, by the way.) I explained my philosophy … Continue reading

Statistics and politics

Statistics are easily mistakenly used and manipulated. Rudy Guiliani is under attack due to statistics that he quoted in a political ad running in New Hampshire . He spoke about the odds of surviving prostate cancer, contrasting the medical systems in the United States and in the United Kingdom. I saw a link to an … Continue reading

>Human dignity: What it is

>Whether it’s a genetic result of evolution or the way we are designed by a Creator, even very young children seem to have a sense that it’s important to understand that there are consequences to infringing rights of other people before they can express “That’s not fair!.” My attempt a couple of days ago to … Continue reading

Human dignity: What it is

Whether it’s a genetic result of evolution or the way we are designed by a Creator, even very young children seem to have a sense that it’s important to understand that there are consequences to infringing rights of other people before they can express “That’s not fair!.” My attempt a couple of days ago to … Continue reading

>Conservative vs. Progressive (no adjectives)

>Once again, we’re reminded about the great gulf between perception and reality (just look at the repetition of the names of authors whose ethics comments are published in the “mainstream” science and bioethics journals and explore the political and religious viewpoints of those authors and editors), between the idea that all humans are people possessing … Continue reading

Conservative vs. Progressive (no adjectives)

Once again, we’re reminded about the great gulf between perception and reality (just look at the repetition of the names of authors whose ethics comments are published in the “mainstream” science and bioethics journals and explore the political and religious viewpoints of those authors and editors), between the idea that all humans are people possessing … Continue reading

If the post is missing: take the “www.” out of the url

Categories

Archives

SiteMeter