Category: Culture & Ethics
Weighing the Impact of California’s New Physician-Assisted Suicide Law
The danger to patients’ lives posed by this law is made much greater by the impact on medical economics.
In Pursuit of a Death Culture, Wearing Decency Down
I have noticed that the death pushers don’t give a fig about democratic processes.
Humans Are More than Mammals
I hate to break it to Professor Laist, but our co-mammals don’t return his sympathy or empathy.
Cow Cloning Disaster Is a Warning Against Human Cloning
Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996 to open the way for cloned “transgenic” animal herds.
The Martian Is a Tribute to Human Exceptionalism
The idea of man’s exceptional status in nature is unpopular, to put it mildly, in academic and media circles. But we recognize that status implicitly.