Category: Medicine
Somebody to Loathe — Eugenics at Harvard
It’s a cliché that loathing other people is something we do to prop up our own sagging sense of self-worth.
"Anti-Science" Revisited as Adult Stem Cells Prevent Heart Failure Deaths
What do you know, the so-called anti-scientists had it far more right than their accusers.
It’s Time to Shudder
For years, I have documented the growing calls within bioethics and organ transplant medicine to kill the “dead donor” rule to allow live organ harvesting.
Taking the Intimacy Out of Family Creation
Think of the kind of people who might not have been born if subjected as embryos to such a quality control inspection.
Thermoregulation and Thyroid Control: A Beautifully Irreducible System
The body’s system to control thyroid function, plus basal metabolic rate, heat production at rest, and core temperature, seems to know what it is doing.