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The Newsweek cover story is on recent efforts to create life in the laboratory, and of course they call this "playing God". Haven't they got the message yet?
In the last post, I introduced Francis Bacon--chiefly via the New Atlantis--and described a very interesting, if ultimately perhaps too strong, feminist reaction.
When George Bush quietly dismissed two members of his Council on Bioethics on the last Friday in February, he probably assumed the news would get buried under the weekends distractions.
That's the title of a truly excellent article by Stephen Pinker for The New Republic. The subject is the 500+ page report by the President's Council on Biotheics attempting to define what human digni
It's nice to know that I'm not the only person who cares about this issue. I wrote a couple of posts about this on my blog (see the links below), but I saw a lot of disapproval from people who like our current private journal system (without open access). Here are the posts, in case you'd like to see them:
http://www.globallyrational.com/2008/04/11/the-global-network-of-scient…
http://www.globallyrational.com/2008/04/30/4-ways-to-foster-scientific-…