By C. Ben Mitchell, Ph.D., CBC Board Member Just when you think you have heard it all, someone pushes the envelope. According to three ethicists writing in the journal Ethics, Policy and the Environment, because geoengineering...
Read MoreBy Matthew Eppinette, CBC New Media Manager Splice is a science fiction / horror film about genetic experimentation gone wrong. Clive and Elsa (Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley) are scientists working to combine strands of DNA from...
Read MoreDanielle Egan over at the New Scientist writes about Transvision 2007 in her piece this week, ” Death Special: The plan for eternal life”. Many of the transhumanist ‘regulars’ showed up for Transvision...
Read MoreWhen, if ever before now, has humanity technologically progressed with such leaps and bounds, yet with less attention to the driving forces and philosophical assumptions that pave the road we follow? In the face of cavalier...
Read MoreFour months ago, a little girl in Samoa was born with serious disabilities. Doctors did not believe the baby could survive, so they urged the parents not to feed their daughter. But the parents loved their daughter and snuck...
Read MoreAs a 21st century society, we are being forced to grapple with the ethical questions surrounding some of the leading scientific discoveries in human history, particularly in the area of genetic research. The current wave in...
Read MoreJames Hughes, Ph.D, teaches Health Policy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and serves as Executive Director of the World Transhumanist Association. (This review is from betterhumans.com, 1/12/05) James Hughes may be a...
Read MoreHow Much is an Embryo Worth? Imagine one day your spouse tells you, I could see you three different ways. First, you are someone I see as equal to me. Second, I could view you as a clump of cells. Or third, you are someone who...
Read More1. Why did you write Preaching Eugenics? Was there a big overarching questions you were attempting to answer? I wrote Preaching Eugenics because I thought it was important to describe this unknown part of our eugenic past. I...
Read MoreMovies like Bicentennial Man, AI, Simone and most recently, I Robot have gripped the public’s imagination. But just how much of what is depicted in these films is Hollywood sensationalism? Will robots soon live amongst us,...
Read MoreIn response to ‘Bioethics’: The Case of the Fetus by Peter Singer (August 5, 1976) To the Editors: (found in The New York Review of Books, Volume 23, Number 18) Peter Singer was among the first to draw public...
Read More(from nationalreview.com) Doctors at Seattle Children’s Hospital admitted that they surgically removed a six-year-old girl’s healthy uterus, breast buds, and appendix, and then subjected her to two years of high-dose...
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