Tag: altruism
“Surgeons as ‘Vultures’”: Medical Journal Pushes Harvesting Kidneys from Dying Patients
When organ-transplant medicine was launched, a wary society was solemnly promised that organs would be taken only from the dead.
The Transcendental Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
Truth, beauty, and goodness are abstract concepts that correspond to our deepest desires. They are not likely to have evolved by a neo-Darwinian process.
Lessons from the Wansink Science Scandal
Professor Alan Levinovitz asks: Science as “a big book of Important Truths”?
Michael Egnor on Animal Generosity
The failure to understand the gulf that separates humans from animals, and humans from machines, is a source of confusion to rival almost any other.
Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the “War on Science”
Unfortunately, Pinker’s overweening faith in science as a reliable path to the truth has its own problems.