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Anthony Gregory, a researcher with the Independent Institute, makes the case in The Atlantic for legalizing organ sales:
Several years ago, transplant surgeon Nadley Hakim at St. Mary’s Hospital in London pointed out that “this trade is going on anyway, why not have a controlled trade where if someone wants to donate a kidney for [...]
I am an advocate of pursuing anti-aging medicine. What does that mean? It means I support research that would create medical techniques and pharmaceuticals that would prevent age-related health issues, like muscle wasting, mental decay, lowered immune response, and heart disease. It also means I support the right of someone to refuse certain medical treatments based [...]
Imagine the following:
Tomorrow, a bureaucrat in Berlin discovers a massive cache of documents, videos, and photos from a secret Nazi science lab. The lab was charged with the most heinous and unethical of Nazi research programs wherein human test subjects were abused and violated in the most inhuman ways possible. [...]
UPDATE: This infographic may be crap.
Roscoe G. Bartlett lays out his case:
We also know more about the consequences of invasive research on the animals themselves. Biomedical procedures that are simple when performed on humans often require traumatizing restraint of chimpanzees to protect human researchers from injury, as chimpanzees are five times stronger than humans. For instance, acquiring a [...]
Yes, there are ways to be grossly unhealthy, but it turns out that genes and luck have a huge determining factor in how long you get to kick around on this planet:
The study, appearing Aug. 3 in the online edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, followed the lives of [...]
My most recent post for Discover highlights a major breakthrough in stem cell technology.
My latest Science Not Fiction post addresses the “My body, my choice” mantra in relationship to transhumanism. Somatic rights and the freedom of bodily determination are at stake:
Because you have the right to do something, you are also responsible for the results of that decision. For example, if you choose to do drugs, [...]
If it has the MyCare card in it:
“When dealing with a medical emergency, patients may be unconscious or unable to communicate with paramedics for some other reason,” says Professor Panicos Kyriacou of City University, “our device makes potentially life-saving data easily accessible. For example, it’s vital to know whether a patient is allergic [...]
Ross Douthat expresses the “right to die” side of the paradox of natural death nicely in his rejoinder to Kevin Drum.
Well, yes: The slippery slope that I discussed in the column doesn’t amount to much if you don’t disapprove at all of people deciding to take their own lives. Absent that disapproval (and an [...]
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