Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Ultimate and Penultimate Currencies

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Note: I started writing this in January 2010, and apparently put it away for some time. The basic theorem is an idea that has stayed with m...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Justice and gratitude

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A friend recently reposted on Facebook a tweet that made the very worthy point that people who build accomodations for the handicapped in ch...
Friday, November 06, 2015

The Long-overdue Death of Embryonic Stem Cell Hype

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The Hype over Embryonic Stem Cell Research Dies Not with a Bang but a Whimper Science and scientists are subject to hype just like everyon...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

The Courage of Caitlyn

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Although Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner's big coming out is buried under several layers of news-cycle by now, I don't think a post on his situ...
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Thursday, November 07, 2013

Darwinism and Amoralism

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I went to a thought-provoking talk excellently presented by Professor Kenneth Miller, the Brown-University cell biologist who testified in t...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Modesty Is Simply Thoughtfulness

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Huffington Post is promoting a story about Mark Frauenfelder's daughter being told by a TSA agent to cover up. According to Frauenfeld...
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Biggest Barrier to Women in Science: Women

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There it is. The New York Times has discovered it AGAIN! Bias against women in science. Here's the nub of the study that PROVES it: Al...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The Arc of Modernity

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James Barham has a great post on " Can We Teach Virtue? ". It got me to thinking about how we got into such a mess that we can...
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Monday, September 05, 2011

The Inhumanity of Teilhard de Chardin

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Once upon a time, among comments on Albert Camus's The Plague , Thomas Merton wrote a trenchant critique of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1...
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Friday, January 29, 2010

Abortion and the War against Nature

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I went down to DC for the March for Life last week. Trip preparations before and catching up with work afterward have taken up much of my t...
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Institutional Roots of Scientific Dishonesty

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I recently wrote about about how dishonesty is a matter of course in modern (Baconian) science (and here ) with regard to the British clima...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Thanksgiving

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. —Cicero, " Pro Plancio ," XXXIII.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Live, Online Bioethics Debate

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I thought you might be interested in participating in this debate taking place this week at The Economist .
Sunday, June 22, 2008

Sex on the Brain

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Work's been keeping me from writing anything here, though I have been thinking of things to write. I thought you might be interested in ...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Pinker's Confusion

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Steven Pinker's screed against of the President's Council on Bioethics will be officially published by The New Republic on May 28 ...
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