Now, here’s a story of how and why transhumanism isn’t going to cure what ails the human condition: Second Life, which I had not even heard of until a correspondent wrote asking to interview me about it a short time ago, allows players to lead virtual lives. Say, you are a lawyer and . . . . Continue Reading »
I just checked at the NIH Web site to see the latest NIH funding levels for ESCR. Wow. Between fiscal 2003-2007, the Feds will have shelled out approximately $161 million for human embryonic stem cell research. Add in $492 million for ESCR in animals, and the total over five years comes to a . . . . Continue Reading »
Of course he does, and of course, he is allowed to do so in the New York Times. You see, although he doesn’t say it in this article explicitly, to Peter Singer, Ashley is not a person. That means that if it serves her parents’ “interests,” they had every right to give her . . . . Continue Reading »
The Times of London is reporting,“Sir Richard Branson will launch his most controversial business to date as he moves into stem-cell storage and the biotech sector.” Huh? The stem cells in question come from umbilical cord blood. How in the world could that be considered . . . . Continue Reading »
With the murderer Jack Kevorkian soon to be released from prison on parole, he has to think about earning a living. According to this story, he has decided to go into business as what he calls a circumcision consultant. From the story: “Kevorkian was asked if his circumcision consulting might . . . . Continue Reading »
A few weeks ago I reported about the anger expressed by some gay activists about animal research reportedly aimed at making gay sheep straight. I blogged the story, not in order to deal with gay/straight issues, but to point out its relevance to the hubristic human enhancement agenda.I soon received . . . . Continue Reading »
Germany has jailed a man who sold suicide pills over the internet. Good. Next stop: Phillip Nitschke. I would also like to see more enforcement against the suicide assisters among American euthanasia . . . . Continue Reading »
When Proposition 71 was being pushed on the voters, campaign propaganda assured Californians that the money would pour in to state coffers if they only gave scientists the constitutional right to do human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. The same tactic was deployed in Missouri in Amendment . . . . Continue Reading »
In the current edition of Brave New Bioethics, I discuss the new religion of transhumanism, which fervently believes in a post human eschatology of human immortality and . . . . Continue Reading »
It just keeps coming: The Telegraph is reporting that a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that “stem cells are passed from mothers to unborn children with type 1 diabetes and may help repair the damage caused by immune attacks on insulin-producing . . . . Continue Reading »
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