Tag Archives: Embryonic Stem Cell Research

David S. Oderberg on Bioethics Today

David S. Oderberg, Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading, and author of a marvelously clear paper on what’s wrong with embryonic stem cell research, has a problem with the whole bioethics industry. A big problem Oh, and did I say “industry”? Oderberg sees a whole lot of being careers being built here, but not much …

March 13, 2009 – 7:45 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

The Scientific-Moral Case for Embryonic Stem Cell Research?

From a comment thread, something I want to bring out more into the open: Mike Haubrich wrote this, expressing a common argument for embryonic stem cell research (ESCR): By some definitions it is not a person until it has implanted. By other religious definitions, a fetus is not a person until it is viable outside …

March 13, 2009 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments Off

Stem Cells: The Bad, the Good, and the Question of Science

Makes you wonder…. In May 2001, Israeli parents of a nine-year old boy with a crippling disease that left him wheelchair-bound took their child to see doctors in Moscow. In a highly experimental procedure that was presumably unavailable in their home country, those doctors injected embryonic stem cells into various regions of his brain…. Then …

February 19, 2009 – 2:54 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Life and Choices, Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (5)

“Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells?: Scientific American”

Good news on one front of the culture wars: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells? [Link: Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells?: Scientific American]

December 3, 2008 – 8:05 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged , | Comments (2)

“Scientific information largely ignored when forming opinions about stem cell research”

It’s below the surface, so I might just be imagining it (I’ve done that before); but is there a note of frustration in this Eurekalert article? Scientific information largely ignored when forming opinions about stem cell research For one thing, the headline is completely misleading. Where in this, for example, does it say that people …

June 6, 2008 – 12:00 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged , | Comments (9)