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Should We Really Fear Reproductive Human Cloning?
What is actually needed is an unbiased assessment of both the perils and promises of cloning humans. (Jacob M. Appel)
Stem Cell Fairy Tales and Stem Cell Fables
In an interview I did for The Washington Post in 2004, I asked McKay why so many people kept talking about the possibility that injections of stem cells into the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease might someday cure these people when, in fact, the scientific consensus at the time (and still today) was that such injections were unlikely to benefit such patients.
BioPolicyWiki
Welcome to BioPolicyWiki, an on-line guide to laws and policies governing the use of human genetic and reproductive technologies throughout the world. Here you can:
bioethics.com
"bioethics.com is a public service provided through the collaboration of many individuals and organizations to improve the discussion of issues in bioethics."
The President's Council on Bioethics
"Advising the President on ethical issues related to advances in biomedical science and technology"
Extra audio of Gazzaniga interview....AND Steven Pinker
"Gazzaniga has been a vocal scientific voice on the council at a controversial time -- with President George W. Bush twice vetoing legislation on stem cell research; the limiting of U.S federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research to a restricted number of cell lines; and other debates." (All In The Mind)
The President's Council on Bioethics: Human Dignity and Bioethics
Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics, March 2008
Cloning opens door to 'farmyard freaks'
"Moves to clone and genetically modify farm livestock have opened the door to the creation of "Farmyard Freaks", experts have warned.
News that the daughter of a US clone cow has been born on a British farm has moved the issue from science fiction to consumer reality." (Mail Online)
The Wisdom of Repugnance
"The president’s call for a moratorium on human cloning has given us an important opportunity. In a truly unprecedented way, we can strike a blow for the human control of the technological project, for wisdom, prudence and human dignity. The prospect of human cloning, so repulsive to contemplate, is the occasion for deciding whether we shall be slaves of unregulated progress, and ultimately its artifacts, or whether we shall remain free human beings who guide our technique toward the enhancement of human dignity. " (Kass)
Blade Runner: What Does It Mean to Be Human in a Artificial World?
"In our strange and potentially very dangerous world where science fiction and Charles Darwin often collide, a handful of scientists are racing to be the first to create life. According to a flood of recent reports, this artificial life could be as close as six months away. "
The Stupidity of Dignity
"Conservative bioethics' latest, most dangerous ploy." (Pinker)
Biotechnology, Ethics & The Future, Bioethicist Dr. Arthur Caplan Talks With CBS News
"We are, undoubtedly, in the midst of a genetic revolution. It could well mean made-to-order babies or the creation of spare organs for transplant. Soon the question of bio-technology will change from "can we?" to "should we?" "
Lee M. Silver Home Page
"Professor of molecular biology and public policy in the Woodrow Wilson school of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University"
Oxytocin: the direct route to altruism?
"In relation to our previous and well-visited post about oxytocin, we should mention a new study that uses this very substance in a neuroeconomic set-up. In the study, recently published by Neuron, and headed by Baumgartner et al., it was found that the administration of oxytocin affected subjects’ in a trust game. In particular, it was found that subjects that received oxytocin were not affected by information about co-players that cheated." (BRAINETHICS)
Of persons, robots, aliens and humans
"It is common parlance to equate the words ‘person’ with ‘human’. That is perhaps because of all the creatures we know, we humans are those with the most obvious claim to personhood. But, what actually is a ‘person’? We know that a person is a moral entity - someone, rather than something, but that just requires us to define a ‘moral entity’, so begs the question. This is a very vital question these days, as it relates to such issues as human embryo research, euthanasia, human genetic engineering and cloning, among others." (Human Enhancement and Biopolitics)
The Stupidity of Dignity
"The problem is that "dignity' is a squishy, subjective notion, hardly up to the heavyweight moral demands assigned to it. " (Steven Pinker)
Neuroethics 101: Bioethics Meets Mind Reading
"New technologies enable scientists to understand, alter, and enhance our brains. These raise a host of policy-relevant questions about privacy, social and political coercion, access to technology and therapy."
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