Category: Medicine
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.
Scientists Cure Blindness with Adult Stem Cells
If this breakthrough had occurred with embryonic stem cells, the front-page stories would have screamed around the world.
Some Bioethicists Are Not as Smart as They Think
Witness this attack by University of Ottawa professor Stuart Chambers on the disability rights advocacy organization Not Dead Yet.