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Trust me: I'll act against my conscience
The title throws you for a loop, doesn’t it? Trust me to do what? Follow the law, when I can violate my own conscience? Practice ethical medicine when I promise not to have any personal convictions to guide me? What are laws and ethics to a person who has no conscience? This month’s American Journal … Continue reading
>Trust me: I’ll act against my conscience
>The title throws you for a loop, doesn’t it? Trust me to do what? Follow the law, when I can violate my own conscience? Practice ethical medicine when I promise not to have any personal convictions to guide me? What are laws and ethics to a person who has no conscience? This month’s American Journal … Continue reading
Corrigendum – or "Correction in Print"
I’ve learned two new words in the last two days: eponymous (“self-named” or named after the thing itself) and “corrigendum” (a correction of an error found after printing, which is corrected with a separate printed page.) I just had to use the latter in my title. The journal Nature has retracted (sorry, subscription only) a … Continue reading
>Corrigendum – or "Correction in Print"
>I’ve learned two new words in the last two days: eponymous (“self-named” or named after the thing itself) and “corrigendum” (a correction of an error found after printing, which is corrected with a separate printed page.) I just had to use the latter in my title. The journal Nature has retracted (sorry, subscription only) a … Continue reading
Non-destructive embryonic stem cells
It’s all over the web (here and here, at the “news@nature.com” site,for instance), three separate labs have been able to reproduce embryonic stem cells by “reprogramming” adult cells from skin. Much of the commentary is like Art Caplan’s comments quoted in the first (Blog.bioethics.net) link above. Paraphrased, the bulk of the “mainstream remarks include, “It’s … Continue reading
>Non-destructive embryonic stem cells
>It’s all over the web (here and here, at the “news@nature.com” site,for instance), three separate labs have been able to reproduce embryonic stem cells by “reprogramming” adult cells from skin. Much of the commentary is like Art Caplan’s comments quoted in the first (Blog.bioethics.net) link above. Paraphrased, the bulk of the “mainstream remarks include, “It’s … Continue reading
Changing the rules of biology?
Kelly Hillis, over at the Bioethics.net blog scoffs at the opinion of Concerned Women of America on same sex parenting. She claims that “Science has allowed us to change the rules of biology, and DNA is becoming a tool, not a definition.” I strongly disagree. We can’t “change the rules of biology.” With quite a … Continue reading
>Changing the rules of biology?
>Kelly Hillis, over at the Bioethics.net blog scoffs at the opinion of Concerned Women of America on same sex parenting. She claims that “Science has allowed us to change the rules of biology, and DNA is becoming a tool, not a definition.” I strongly disagree. We can’t “change the rules of biology.” With quite a … Continue reading
Wall Street Journal on dealing with dying parent
Thank you, Wall Street Journal, for giving us this free article on dealing with a dying family member, focusing on children who live out of town. The best point: “Just go.” You won’t regret it. Edited 3/27/2102 for formatting
Virtual science vs. actual experimentation (Emergency Contraception)
There’s still no evidence that Plan B interferes with implantation, and lots of evidence that it doesn’t. There have been reports that Drs. Mikolajczyk and Stanford (“Levonorgestrel emergency contraception: a joint analysis of effectiveness and mechanism of action.” Fertility and Sterility R. Mikolajczyk, J. Stanford, access to free abstract available, here) have proven that there … Continue reading
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