Category: Medicine
In Prestigious Journal, Bioethicist Pushes Human Extinction
The human-extinction movement used to be pretty fringy but it may be gaining traction within bioethics and philosophy.
Francis Collins Disappointed as a Public-Health Leader
Many Christians looked to Collins, an Evangelical Christian who was also a brilliant scientist, to bring a greater sense of morality to the research pursuit.
This Is Science? Top Medical Journal Goes After…Capitalism
Having strived to transform global warming into a planetary health emergency, it has now published a screed attacking “commercialism” for killing the planet.
Should Scientists Lie to Us for Our Own Good?
People suspect that we are being conned about a lot of things. How would an accepted, admitted policy of conning us not make it worse?
Liquid Harmony: How Our Bodies Manage Salt and Water
Left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward degradation and death, not life.