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Science, Medicine, or Politics?
pro-lifeabortionbioethicstranshumanismWhy is a family doctor blogging on a political website? Besides the fact that I have an opinion about everything (and claim to not only have invented the right...
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Interface with Big Brother
healthcare reformbioethicstranshumanismI touched last week on the politics of transhumanism. Technology that feeds information directly to our senses and/or sends data from our bodies to the Internet...
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Protect us from ourselves, please!
bioethicsThe Scientist reports on the controversial "23andMe" home gene test for "playful" characteristics (link requires free registration) such as curly hair and the ability to smell certain...
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ObamaWorld: Policy Over Their Heads
bioethicsPosthumanismStem CellNIHWhen I heard about Kevin Costner’s press conference on the British Petroleum oil spill, I’m afraid that I thought about WaterWorld, that huge money-loser that helped...
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All ... Created Equal
bioethicsPosthumanismJuly 4, 2010, the United States commemorated the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It has been 234 years since Jefferson and his co-signers found it “self-evident that...
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Un-Reason-able Transhumanism
bioethicstranshumanismposthoumanprolifecreationRonald BailyBen SteinExpelled, the MoviepoliticsRonald Bailey is the Science Editor of Reason Magazine, a print and on line journal dedicated to “free...
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Austin Stem Cell Research Symposium
abortionbioethicsStem CellI attended a once in a lifetime event sponsored by the Austin Heart Hospital and Texans for Stem Cell Research on the University of Texas campus Wednesday, October 27th. Six...
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Scientists and Budget Cuts (Spend more, but not as much as we thought?)
liberal concoctionsbioethicsVern EhlersScience, is a weekly journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.The journal only allows non-subscribers to read an excerpt, but...
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Get Ready for the Assault from "Stem Cell Action"
bioethicsStem CellEven as we learn that the journal, Stem Cell, has given its annual award to a researcher who showed that umbilical cord blood cells can help repair kidneys after trauma, that...
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Ethical Stem Cell research for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease
bioethicsStem CelliPS cellsAlzheimer's DiseaseParkinson’s cellBuried within this news release about an article published this week in the journal Stem Cells is the report that the same team has...
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(VIDEO) More on stem cells
videobioethicsembryonic stem cellsAnthony AtalaUrologist Dr. Anthony Atala made news in January, 2007 with his report in Nature Biotechnology on stem cells found in amniotic fluid. These were 'adult'...
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Life Ethics
pro-lifebioethicstranshumanismlife ethicsPresentation to Texas GOP Vote in Austin, Texas, March 25, 2011:If you crack the egg of a bird on the Endangered Species List, it won’t matter that the bird was...
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Cloned Human Embryos Announced
Restore Familieshuman cloningbioethicsIf we can still believe scientific journals, Cell reports in the June 6, 2013 issue indicate that scientists have succeeded in cloning human embryos.The term used...
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The Ethics of Quarantine
Restore FamiliesUnited StatesWorldDeclaration of Independenceebolabioethics“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain...
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