Tag: newborns
At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?
Logic isn’t a sufficient answer to the question I raised, however. For a scientific answer, we need evidence.
Genetics Journal Pushes Soft Public-Health Authoritarianism
We must resist. Such a system would mark the end of freedom. And think of the eugenic implications.
The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo
A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization.
At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?
Peter Singer has argued that animals, like humans, deserve protection because of their ability to suffer.
Scientific “Decadence” and the Myth of Objectivity
Scientists aren’t like “everyone else”: because of the prestige they enjoy, the impact of their being “uncritical of things that [they] want to believe” is tremendous. It can be quite corrosive, quite malign.