Category: Bioethics
Consciousness in Unborn Children: Touching the Third Rail
Leading neuroscientist Christof Koch became a target of Cancel Culture in part because his popular theory of consciousness might threaten the right to abortion.
Should Science Be Publicly Funded at All?
Waste, futility, and fraud are too frequent outcomes of taxpayer funding. Private funding could well be more intelligently directed.
Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions
Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death.
Pope Francis Embraced Human Exceptionalism
The idea of unique human value and concomitant duties are the core of human exceptionalism.
“Expedience Bioethics” Busts Moral Limits
When embryonic research first started, we were told that there would be a strict 14-day limit on researching embryos in petri dishes.