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Abortion and freedom from nature
I’ve been skulking around various blogs on bioethical issues recently, and I came across this geme from the Christian blog ‘Of Virtue and Life’: What I am arguing [...] is that pregn… more →
Human Enhancement and Biopolitics
Abortion and freedom from nature
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Joshua wrote 4 months ago: I’ve been skulking around various blogs on bioethical issues recently, and I came across this … more →
Journal of Evolution and Technology has some reading material
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Joshua wrote 7 months ago: I know I’m not posting as frequently as I could be, but the Journal of Evolution and Technolog … more →
Boosting brainpower
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Joshua wrote 7 months ago: The practical and ethical issues with intelligence enhancement are receiving more attention, with a … more →
Miah on enhancement
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Joshua wrote 7 months ago: Andy Miah has an article on enhancement in The Guardian. It’s short, but I agree with many of … more →
Designer babies are good, but don't come with a satisfaction guarantee
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Joshua wrote 8 months ago: There’s this story going around concerning designer babies, supposedly trying to show how horr … more →
Significant minority favour designer babies
Joshua wrote 10 months ago: The results of a recent study into public opinion on reproductive genetics (reprogenetics) have been … more →
Ethical issues concerning transgenic humans
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: Two Australian bioethicists, Julian Savulescu and Loane Skene, have a brief paper in the American Jo … more →
Genetic enhancement can not be a bad thing
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Joshua wrote 1 year ago: In discussing whether designer babies, human genetic engineering or even cybernetic enhancements sho … more →
Neocon logic strikes again
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: The magazine The New Atlantis, the usual hangout of biotech-fearing Leon Kass and formerly edited by … more →
Olympic Enhancements
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: The Olympics are upon us, and so are the many articles on the horribly unacceptable spectre of GENE … more →
Carbon-fibre legs not an enhancement
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: Oscar Pistorius, the runner nicknamed the ‘Blade Runner’ for his carbon-fibre prosthetic … more →
Why evolution gets it wrong
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Joshua wrote 1 year ago: In Richard Dawkins’s book Climbing Mount Improbable, he uses the analogy of climbing a mountai … more →
Bible verses on human enhancement
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Joshua wrote 1 year ago: This is a list of all the bible verses that I’ve seen used, or thought could be used, against transh … more →
If you're going to argue against life extension...
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: …don’t forget to take into account other likely biotechnological changes to the human be … more →
The E Word
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: Is it right to call someone a eugenicist, or to say their ideas are just like eugenics (even if they … more →
I think I want to move to New Zealand
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Joshua wrote 1 year ago: Bioethicists must be sensible across the Ditch, because a New Zealand bioethics commission has relea … more →
Wednesday's Words of Worry
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: Today’s Words are from none other than the Catholic Church. Well, written by some members of t … more →
Very funny comic
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: Funny, but actually has a very important message behind it: From Mad Science. 2009 update, se … more →
John Harris in The Times on H+
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: One of my favourite bioethicists, John Harris, has a piece titled “Who’s afraid of a synthetic … more →
