Category: Culture & Ethics
Embryonic Stem Cell Hype — Was Hype
Let’s remember all those people who did not get out of their wheelchairs nor have their diabetes or Parkinson’s cured by ESC therapies.
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.
NIH Can’t Be Trusted to Regulate Animal/Human Research
We have to be careful how we react to stories like this and not assume that all such work is, by definition, unethical.
Without Free Will There Is No Justice
Of course Manson acolyte Leslie Van Houten chose to kill, just as millions of law-abiding people choose not to kill.