Philosophy & Ethics

Nine nights of Celebration- Navarathri

Navarathri is celebrated starting tomorrow all across India. There are nine forms of Mother Goddess. Navarathri literally means nine nights and each night one goddess is worshipped. Mother Goddess manifests itself in different forms as Durga, as Saraswath ...

Blog Post - Anirudha Lakshmin... - Sep 29 2022 - 8:46am

Humanities Scholars: Make Sure Medical Recommendations Don't Come Across As Shaming

It used to be common for physicians to give common-sense advice to patients; lose weight, drink less alcohol, stop smoking. Such shaming may reflect an unequal power relationship, according to a paper in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications which ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2022 - 1:58pm

Cybernetic Augmentation: Ethics Versus Technology

Imagine that a soldier has a tiny computer device injected into their bloodstream that can be guided with a magnet to specific regions of their brain. With training, the soldier could then control weapon systems thousands of miles away using their thought ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 2 2022 - 10:40am

Facial Transplant Donors Can't Really Be Anonymous- And What That Means For Families

As technology continues to advance, it will one day be possible to grow organs and even faces from a patient's own stem cells. Until then there are transplants from donors. Such donors are often anonymous but in the case of Belgium's first facial ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2023 - 7:39pm

Activists And Academics Really Want To Know If You Bought A Gun

The anti-gun group Everytown for Gun Safety says someone is fatally shot or injured in a road rage incident every 16 hours.  Is that number real? Yes and no. The Gun Violence Archive they drew their claim from lumps criminals doing drive-by shootings and c ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 23 2023 - 6:01am

The Scramble To Govern Generative AI In Healthcare

In the 19th century, charlatans traveled around selling magic potions, tonics, and salves but to stop them no one decided to ban actual medical research. The issue facing "AI", which is short for Artificial Intelligence, is that the only people w ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 16 2023 - 9:28am

Facebook Will Continue Experimenting On Users Under Closed Guidelines

In June of this year, Facebook provoked a widespread public outcry after it became known that it had tried to manipulate the emotions of nearly 700,000 of its users as part of a social “experiment.” ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 2 2023 - 1:03pm

Waste: Some Scientists May Have Taken Millions In Duplicate Funding

When fiscal hawk Sen. Tom Coburn set his sights on waste (funding humanities nonsense) and duplication at the National Science Foundation, there was outrage that a politician might actually look out for how taxpayer money was used. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 30 2024 - 10:53am

Should You Resign Over A Paper You Disagree With?

Klaudia Brix of Jacobs University has resigned from the board of the Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology,  the official publication of the Italian Society of Anatomy and Histology, because a paper by prominent 'HIV does not cause AIDS' rese ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 31 2024 - 9:21am

Barely Half Of The Public Now Trusts Science- What To Do

When I was young, conservatives and liberals had equally high levels of trust in science. And it was high. Only progressives thought science was not a force for public good. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 2 2024 - 9:26am