Category: Culture & Ethics
We Need the Grim Good of Animal Research
Scientists researching gene therapy as a potential future therapy have succeeded in restoring feeling to paralyzed rats.
Were Nazis More Tolerant of Down Syndrome than Some European Countries Today?
Richard Dawkins lashed out at Pope Francis for the latter’s comparing modern eugenic efforts to Nazi precedents that sought to “create a pure race.”
Medical Conscience Crisis Comes to Ireland
This is not only authoritarian — shattering the guarantees of religious liberty in virtually all existing human-rights accords — but could cause a significant brain drain.
Bioethicists to the People: “Obey Us!”
Udo Schuklenk is furious at the public backlash against the forced removal of life support from Alfie Evans in the U.K.
Listen: Reviewing Infinity War — And What’s That Got to Do with Intelligent Design?
Evolutionary ecologist Eric Pianka has mused about a dramatic culling of the human race, by 90 percent, courtesy of the “efficient” Ebola virus.