Philosophy & Ethics

Citizen Scientists Should Be Included As Authors On Journal Papers

Though the largest telescopes are controlled by governments, a large part of the time new discoveries are made by amateur astronomers. "Amateur" is a negative word now but at the turn of the 20th century it wasn't. Sherlock Holmes was an ama ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2019 - 11:18am

What Virtues, And Why?

Here comes another post on ethics! This one is, I must admit, somewhat meta-ethical, despite my recent post about the limited value of meta-ethical discussions when it comes to debates in first-order ethics. As I pointed out in the discussion that followed ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jan 3 2020 - 1:58pm

Is It Immoral To Oppose The Use Of Pesticides?

If you were to ask a group of medical professionals to name the most significant public health achievements of the past century, antibiotics and widespread vaccination against infectious diseases would almost certainly top the list. ...

Article - Henry I. Miller - Jan 6 2020 - 10:15am

True Health Initiative: How Epidemiologists Walter Willett And Frank Hu Use Targeted Harassment To Prevent Criticism

The True Health Initiative (THI) describes itself as a nonprofit devoted to “fighting fake facts and combating false doubts to create a world free of preventable diseases, using the time-honored, evidence-based, fundamentals of lifestyle and medicine.”  Th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 17 2020 - 4:22pm

Environmental Lawyers At NRDC Sue To Have Higher CO2 Emissions

Meleah Geertsma, a senior attorney in the midwestern US for Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)- yes, they have so many attorneys they have titles like "Senior" and for geographical regions- says they are suing the federal government...again ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 21 2020 - 1:35pm

What The Coronavirus Government Lockdown Might Mean For The Future Of Employment

Because of concerns about spreading coronavirus, tens of millions of people are working from home that didn't before.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 19 2020 - 6:36pm

Dennis Kucinich Got Big Payday From Center For Food Safety To Promote Their Clients

Center for Food Safety, a controversial litigation group that has been shown on numerous occasions to be conspiring to manipulate the public about American agriculture, is in the news again. This time for paying former Democratic Congressman, former race-b ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 24 2020 - 1:50pm

Do No Harm? Doctors Are Giving Out 9X As Many Hydroxychloroquine Prescriptions, And That Puts People Who Need It At Risk

The antimalarial drug chloroquine (analogue hydroxychloroquine) is also successfully used to treat lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and autoimmune diseases said to have similar biological mechanisms as COVID-19 and, lacking any remedies besides what can be don ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 4 2020 - 5:31am

'Waiting For Godot' Is Not A COVID-19 Strategy, But It May Be A Metaphor- Editorial

The 1948 Samuel Beckett play "Waiting for Godot" is about two people that are, as you can guess, waiting for Godot. They wait at a tree, but they have no idea who he is or if he will arrive. When the person they do not know and had no idea was ev ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 6 2020 - 12:58am

It's Time To Ban Sex Selection In IVF

Australian guidelines for the ethical use of IVF allow selecting a child’s sex for medical reasons. But draft guidelines that are now open for public submissions raise the possibility of extending this and allowing the choice for social reasons. ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 30 2020 - 11:39am