Month: August 2016
Against “Darwinian Medicine”
Randolph Nesse laid out his vision of medical science informed by Darwinian speculations two decades ago.
Evolution Makes a Child’s Error
A bed doesn’t make itself, as Doug Axe points out in Undeniable, any more than an omelet does.
What Does It Mean to Be Intelligent?
Despite headlines, no machine has yet come close to passing a serious Turing Test. Web security relies on this fact.
A Dehumanizing Ideology Unsurprisingly Catalyzes Violence
Ideas have consequences. That includes reducing human beings to animals or meat robots, deprived of free will or any claim to human exceptionalism.
Brave New World Should Be Campaign Issue
Human cloning is being perfected, we are already engaging in embryonic experiments into genetic engineering, and there is a great silence.