Philosophy & Ethics
- The Problems With Transhumanism
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I have pondered writing about the transhumanism movement for a while, and the opportunity has finally landed on my desktop when I read a brief article by Kyle Munkittrick of the Institute for Emerging Ethics&Technologies. The article is in the form ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jul 12 2009 - 5:18pm
- Update on David versus Goliath- JAMA and Dr. Leo
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After a big kerfuffle in March over whether a researcher violated a confidentiality agreement with JAMA, the journal has eased off a bit with an editorial laying out the new policy for reporting conflict of interest. As I noted in a post in March, Dr. Jona ...
Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 8 2009 - 9:30am
- Is There A Doctor In The House?
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Medical doctors often like to characterize themselves as scientists, and many others in the public are happy to join them in this. I submit, however, that such a characterization is an error. It is not a slur on the profession or its practitioners to say t ...
Article - Gary Herstein - Jul 8 2009 - 11:48pm
- Should Pregnant Women Be Included In The National Children's Study?
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The National Children's Study is an ideal opportunity to get valuable information about pregnant women's health, the most underrepresented population in clinical research, say ethicists at Duke University Medical Center, Johns Hopkins and Georget ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2009 - 1:00am
- Cross-checks on ethics
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About a month ago, we had another instance in a series of discredited scientific studies, that latest one in the medical field. The short version here is that Dr Timothy Kuklo, who worked for the U.S. Army, wrote a paper about a bone-growth product called ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jul 11 2009 - 12:08pm
- Moral Inquiry 1: A Case Against Relativism
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(This is the first in what I anticipate to be a series of three essays on moral inquiry. The second will be a survey of some traditional themes and their contemporary applications, and the third will focus on the “center” around which such inquiries ought ...
Blog Post - Gary Herstein - Jul 13 2009 - 4:44pm
- The Voynich Manuscript: An Enigma, Part #1
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The Voynich Manuscript: An Enigma, Part #1 There are many unsolved mysteries in this world. A web search for 'greatest mysteries', 'unsolved mysteries', 'world's greatest mysteries' and similar search terms leads to man ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 17 2009 - 9:03pm
- The Voynich Manuscript: Dating An Enigma
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The Voynich Manuscript: An Enigma, Part #2 It is nearly 100 years since the Voynich manuscript arrived in America. In that time, not one person or group has managed to decode even a single word of it. I suggest that decryption of any document requires as ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 20 2009 - 1:21pm
- The Voynich Manuscript: An Enigma, Part #3
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The Voynich Manuscript: An Enigma, Part #3 The Voynich manuscript, Beinebecke Library's MS 408 is a handwritten parchment codex of about 240 pages measuring 225 x 160 mm. The manuscript is in an unreadable script. Most of its pages are illustrated ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 23 2009 - 2:13pm
- The Tap Dance Kid, and other thoughts
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Allow me, if you will, to stray from my usual posts about computers, Internet technology, and mathematics. In the mid-1980s I saw a musical on Broadway called The Tap Dance Kid. I enjoyed it a lot — I liked the story, the characters, the songs, and the da ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jul 22 2009 - 9:31am
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