Tag: Views
Scientists Cure Blindness with Adult Stem Cells
If this breakthrough had occurred with embryonic stem cells, the front-page stories would have screamed around the world.
Some Bioethicists Are Not as Smart as They Think
Witness this attack by University of Ottawa professor Stuart Chambers on the disability rights advocacy organization Not Dead Yet.
"Feminist Glaciology": Here’s a Peer-Reviewed Science Journal Article that Didn’t Get Retracted
Want a bit of context for the story about the PLOS ONE paper that got pulled for extraneous references to “design” and a “Creator”?
Science and the "Darkness of the West"
Writing in the London Times, Melanie Phillips is on fire with a righteous indignation at the “dark ages” into which science has fallen.
Bill Nye’s Philistine Materialism
Watch this video from Nye, answering a question from a college philosophy student on whether philosophy is a “meaningless” pursuit.