Philosophy & Ethics

Science Gets Closer To Making Human-Animal Chimeras

The recent announcement that scientists have made human-monkey embryos and cultured them in the lab for two weeks made international headlines. The technology to make animals that contain cells from other species has been available for decades and used ex ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 19 2021 - 10:06am

China Joins Russia And Iran At IARC- And That Means The IARC Agenda Will Be Even More Regressive

Last year it was announced that the Chinese government was going to pay for a third season of the Russian TV show "Better Than Us", a drama about an advanced AI robot that has a neural network bordering on free will, no limitations on killing, an ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 22 2021 - 12:23pm

Black History is Not Marxist, Through It We can Recognize Uighur Slavery, Genocide in China.

R ight now, the cotton in the clothes you are wearing may have originated from slave labor of the Uighurs of Xinjiang (not) Autonomous Region of China. The Chinese Communist Party puts out propaganda which shows happy smiling dancing Uighurs. People happy ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 18 2021 - 10:24am

Does Biden's OSHA Mandate Violate The Nuremberg Code?

President Biden is using his Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) agency to mandate vaccines for companies- by saying they need it to protect workers' safety. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 29 2021 - 11:44am

Anti-Science Groups Demand Equal Time From Wall Street Journal And USA Today

U.S. Right To Know is a small marketing group devoted primarily to endorsing the organic food process and undermining conventional agriculture. Nearly 100 percent of their funding comes from organic food companies, and they seem to believe that for organi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 3 2022 - 12:34pm

People Are Living Longer And Better Than Ever But A Sociologist Says There Are Warning Signs About The Future

A new paper says Generation X adults in the United States are more likely to have a greater number of chronic health conditions than those that preceded them, which will please environmental groups who claim that everything from pesticides to natural gas ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 13 2022 - 12:47pm

AI To Elephants: The Legal Question Of Who Is A Person

Happy the elephant’s story is a sad one. She is currently a resident of the Bronx Zoo in the US, where the Nonhuman Rights Project (a civil rights organization) claims she is subject to unlawful detention. The campaigners sought a writ of habeas corpus on ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 21 2022 - 3:43pm

Many Young Scientists Want To Publish Open Access, They Just Don't Want To Pay For It

Few researchers would commit half of each day to science if they were doing it for free but they are no different than other occupations in believing that economic necessity is a bubble surrounding...themselves.(1) Publishing is not exempt from the double ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 22 2022 - 12:11pm

Nine nights of Celebration- Navarathri

Navarathri is celebrated starting tomorrow all across India. There are nine forms of Mother Goddess. Navarathri literally means nine nights and each night one goddess is worshipped. Mother Goddess manifests itself in different forms as Durga, as Saraswath ...

Blog Post - Anirudha Lakshmin... - Sep 29 2022 - 8:46am

Humanities Scholars: Make Sure Medical Recommendations Don't Come Across As Shaming

It used to be common for physicians to give common-sense advice to patients; lose weight, drink less alcohol, stop smoking. Such shaming may reflect an unequal power relationship, according to a paper in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications which ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2022 - 1:58pm