Category: Medicine
Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic? Controversy Over the P-value Value
There is much to agree with in Yale University clinical neurologist Steven Novella’s recent article on the p-value.
Evolutionary Biologist Now Wants Doctors to Kill Suicidal Depressed People
This is not a slippery slope. This is an ice cliff.
Genetic Engineering with “Strict Guidelines”? Ha!
Here’s the problem: Strict guidelines rarely are strict and they almost never offer permanent protection.
Why Does This Evolutionary Biologist Want to Euthanize Handicapped Babies?
Jerry Coyne argues, astonishingly, that the vulnerability of handicapped children justifies killing them.
Charlie Gard Has Died
There will be much more to say about the utilitarian drift of medicine and the increasing loss of patient autonomy.