03Nov 2024 by Post

We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

animals, bioethicists, brains, Culture & Ethics, doctors, experts, human life, humanized animals, humans, International Society for Stem Cell Research, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, Medicine, mental capacities, neural function, organoids, personalized animals, personhood theory, philosophers, pig, rats, Research, Sergiu Paşca, speciesism, unborn humans
Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Source
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09Oct 2024 by Post

At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?

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Logic isn’t a sufficient answer to the question I raised, however. For a scientific answer, we need evidence. Source
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26Sep 2024 by Post

My Briar Patch: Notes of a Country Doctor 

Biologic Revolution, Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox, briar patch, cancer, Daniel Witt, Francis Crick, geocentrism, heliocentrism, Intelligent Design, Jacques Monod, James Watson, John Searle, mechanistic consensus, Medicine, painting, piano, planets, René Descartes, science of purpose, scientific atheism, Stuart Kauffman, telos, The Song of the South, The Undying Soul, UC Berkeley, University of California at San Francisco
It took me about twenty years after medical school to break free of the intellectual "comfort" afforded by the mechanistic consensus. Source
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19Sep 2024 by Post

The Technocratic Authoritarians Still Want Their “Pandemic Treaty”

authoritarianism, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, demonization, dissenters, Donald Trump, fearmongering, free assembly, free speech, health, International Court of Justice, lockdowns, masks, media, Medicine, misinformation, national sovereignty, Nature (journal), pandemic treaty, pandemics, schools, shaming, technocracy, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Wesley Smith, World Health Assembly, World Health Organization
Wouldn’t it all have gone a lot better if, instead of our fellow Americans doing it to us, we’d handed over national sovereignty to an international body? Source
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17Sep 2024 by Post

Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

brainstem, cardiopulmonary arrest, cell membrane, cell's, chemical concentration, chemicals, death, diffusion, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, extracellular fluid, extraterrestrial life, Genetica, Google AI, Günter Bechly, hospice, information, Intelligent Design, intracellular fluid, just-so stories, liquid water, Medicine, molecular machines, multicellular organism, neurons, osmosis, potassium ions, protein, sodium, sodium ions, sodium-potassium pump, Steve Laufmann, The Extracellular Space (series), The Wonder of Water, water, Your Designed Body
The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Source
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10Sep 2024 by Post

For Your Own Good: The Looming Health Authoritarianism

Anthony Fauci, Culture & Ethics, euthanasia, experts, freedom, Frontiers in Public Health, gender-affirming care, government, health authoritarianism, mastectomies, medical establishment, Medicine, Nature (journal), organ harvesting, professional journals, puberty blockers, public health, public policy, Racism, Science (journal), technocracy, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, United Nations, vaccine mandates, WHO
If you want to see what is going to go wrong with society next, read the professional journals. Source
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07Sep 2024 by Post

A Quarter of Comatose Patients May Be Aware But Unable to Communicate

brain activity, brain responses, brain scans, cognitive motor dissociation, comatose, communication technologies, consciousness, Elon Musk, fMRI, Julian Nowogrodzki, Medicine, Neuralink, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Noland Arbaugh, patient assessment, patients, Technology
“Covertly” means that the patients were not able to respond directly but brain activity showed that they understood what was asked of them. Source
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27Aug 2024 by Post

Engineered Elegance: Generating the Wait Anaphase Signal

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Even a single unattached kinetochore is sufficient to trigger the wait anaphase signal, which inhibits activation of the APC/C that drives entry into anaphase. Source
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