Philosophy & Ethics

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

Cybernetic Augmentation: Ethics Versus Technology

Imagine that a soldier has a tiny computer device injected into their bloodstream that can be guided with a magnet to specific regions of their brain. With training, the soldier could then control weapon systems thousands of miles away using their thought ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 2 2022 - 10:40am

Facial Transplant Donors Can't Really Be Anonymous- And What That Means For Families

As technology continues to advance, it will one day be possible to grow organs and even faces from a patient's own stem cells. Until then there are transplants from donors. Such donors are often anonymous but in the case of Belgium's first facial ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2023 - 7:39pm

Activists And Academics Really Want To Know If You Bought A Gun

The anti-gun group Everytown for Gun Safety says someone is fatally shot or injured in a road rage incident every 16 hours.  Is that number real? Yes and no. The Gun Violence Archive they drew their claim from lumps criminals doing drive-by shootings and c ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 23 2023 - 6:01am