The all-too-human failings of scientists
Hi there, The novelist Sinclair Lewis is little read nowadays, even though he was the first American to win a Nobel Prize for literature. From...
Shock therapy under fire in Massachusetts
A controversy has erupted in Massachusetts over the use of skin shock therapy for troubled teenagers. The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in the suburb of...
“Alarming cracks” in the edifice of science
Many of the most heated policy debates in bioethics hinge on the accuracy of the research -- in biology, medicine and social science. So anything...
Copyright and syndication
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Germany uneasy about teen cosmetic surgery
The German government is drafting legislation to ban cosmetic surgery for teenagers except for medical reasons. At the moment, there is no minimum age. As...
Should Big Pharma fund bioethics?
Gadfly: a person who annoys or criticizes others in order to provoke them into action. There is no better word to describe Carl Elliott, a...
“I found my embryos on Craigslist”
Two couples, in Chicago and Florida, found their embryos through a Craigslist discussion group from an Iowa couple who had 18 spare embryos. Deb and...