The perils of dishonest science
We allphysicians and patientsmust face up to our unavoidable ignorance on medical issues, and still try to make wise decisions.
We allphysicians and patientsmust face up to our unavoidable ignorance on medical issues, and still try to make wise decisions.
If certain animals become persons, as some philosophers argue, human persons become animals, which has consequences for how we treat each other.
In arguing for ethical science, those of us working to safeguard human life would do well to examine our premises carefully, so as to avoid weak or questionable assumptions that could undermine the thrust of our arguments.
Drugs that reshape our character could become the defining industrial products of the century.
Mitochondria are small, elongated structures in a cell that produce energy.
Human pregnancy begins whenever a sperm unites with an egg inside the fallopian tube.
Human beings naturally recoil at the prospect of pain and suffering.
When I give talks on stem cell research or in vitro fertilization, people invariably ask, "What should be done with all the frozen embryos?"
Last month, President Barack Obama quietly disbanded the President's Council on Bioethics, a deliberative body whose changing cast of erudite and ideologically diverse members had spent the past eight years thinking through today's toughest moral questions.