http://74.53.12.38/index.php en mcook@mercatornet.com Copyright 2008 2008-04-18T03:29:01+10:00 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103296.html We're not far away from the world of Minority Report. {sources} http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103296.html Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:29:01 GMT {sources} http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1114250#PaperDownload A stinging critique of neuro-jurisprudence. {sources} http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1114250#PaperDownload Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:27:00 GMT {sources} http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3712980.ece Neuroaesthetics is wrong about our experience of literature – and it is wrong about humanity, says Raymond Tallis. {sources} http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3712980.ece Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:24:00 GMT {sources} http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041501620.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 A eugenic future of "designer babies" is not a good idea. {sources} http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041501620.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:57:00 GMT {sources} http://www.newsweek.com/id/129594 America, not India, is the world's Mecca for surrogacy. {sources} http://www.newsweek.com/id/129594 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:32:00 GMT {sources} http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1008 Why doesn't the US treat the market in women's eggs as human exploitation? {sources} http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1008 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:18:00 GMT {sources} http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1336689 Young doctors know how to order tests, all right. How about other stuff? {sources} http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1336689 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:21:00 GMT {sources} http://www.slate.com/id/2185834/ Coercion, money, and the rise of reproductive freedom. {sources} http://www.slate.com/id/2185834/ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:04:00 GMT {sources} http://www.tnr.com/story.html?id=ea669633-6736-4302-ac23-cd967bbe64f4&p=6 Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, the Mitchell Report, and the adulteration of American sports. {sources} http://www.tnr.com/story.html?id=ea669633-6736-4302-ac23-cd967bbe64f4&p=6 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:24:00 GMT {sources} http://www.slate.com/id/2185090/?from=rss William Saletan on abortion and your right to accurate sex selection. {sources} http://www.slate.com/id/2185090/?from=rss Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:05:00 GMT {sources} http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/752supcx.asp Leon Kass on how, finally, to ban human cloning. {sources} http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/752supcx.asp Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:52:01 GMT {sources} http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/magazine/10Fetal-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all An interview with the world expert in foetal pain. {sources} http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/magazine/10Fetal-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:10:00 GMT {sources} http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-scientist11feb11,1,410790.story?ctrack=2&cset=true Someday, dreams Shinya Yamanaka, we will cure baldness. {sources} http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-scientist11feb11,1,410790.story?ctrack=2&cset=true Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:17:00 GMT {sources} http://www.cbc-network.org/enewsletter/index_1_24_08.htm A British scientist says that the world-famed expert in cloning does not deserve his gong. {sources} http://www.cbc-network.org/enewsletter/index_1_24_08.htm Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:10:00 GMT {sources} http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000006371.cfm Background on a leading campaigner against euthanasia and for human dignity. {sources} http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000006371.cfm Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:36:00 GMT {sources} http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4275/ Scientific evidence is being transformed into a new superstitious dogma. {sources} http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4275/ Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:50:00 GMT {sources} http://geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=3884 Predictions for the year ahead in stem cell research. {sources} http://geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=3884 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:24:00 GMT {sources} http://blog.bioethics.net/2007/11/where-the-presidential-candidates-stand-on-cloning/ A summary of the candidates' often ambiguous position on therapeutic cloning. {sources} http://blog.bioethics.net/2007/11/where-the-presidential-candidates-stand-on-cloning/ Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:19:00 GMT {sources} http://geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=3855 What should ask presidential candidates? {sources} http://geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=3855 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:23:00 GMT {sources} https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/Stem-Cells-and-the-President-br--An-Inside-Account-11024?page=all Why President Bush refused to be seduced by "the siren song of political expediency". {sources} https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/Stem-Cells-and-the-President-br--An-Inside-Account-11024?page=all Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:28:00 GMT {sources} http://www.nysun.com/article/67934 The increasingly blurry line between therapy and enhancement is not cause for concern, but for celebration, {sources} http://www.nysun.com/article/67934 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:34:00 GMT {sources} http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4172/ It sounds like a joke from Monty Python’s University of Woolloomooloo, yet the Aussies proposing a carbon tax on newborns are serious. {sources} http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4172/ Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:16:00 GMT {sources} http://womensbioethics.blogspot.com/2007/12/you-know-youre-bioethicist-when.html Ten tell-tale signs. {sources} http://womensbioethics.blogspot.com/2007/12/you-know-youre-bioethicist-when.html Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:07:00 GMT {sources} http://geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=3818 Are religion and science irredeemably feuding entities? {sources} http://geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=3818 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:51:00 GMT {sources} http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/reviewofbooks_article/4134/ There is stiff competition these days for the title of ‘Biggest Misanthrope’. But with his ‘pro-death’ book on why it is better never to have been born, David Benatar pips the rest to the post. {sources} http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/reviewofbooks_article/4134/ Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:37:00 GMT {sources}