Category: Culture & Ethics
Walt Disney and Evolution: A Study in Ambiguity
Like many artists and intellectuals of his era, Walt Disney was smitten by the theory of evolution.
A Flash of Insight About Physics, Reality, and DNA Launched Bruce Buff as a Novelist
It’s a remarkable and telling thing about human creativity that ideas come to us so often not through a step-by-step process but in an instant.
Aimed at Convenience, Artificial Gestation Would Be Unethical Human Experimentation
Efforts continue to permit human gestation outside a woman’s body.
Fifty Years Later, Recalling Walt Disney and Scientism
Someone once quipped that Disney harbored “19th-century emotions in conflict with a 21st-century brain.”
Ethics and Embryo Research: Let the Promise-Breaking Begin (Again)
I have come to the conclusion that “the scientists” believe themselves entitled to do what they want, in the way they want.