Here There and Everywhere (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
I love Wired because it gives me science news in a language I can understand: A Beginner’s Guide to Muslim Bioethics By Brandon Keim March 04, 2008 | 1:26:15 PMCategories: Bioethics, Biotechnology, Religion When Sunni and Shiite scholars disagreed over the ethics of cloning animals, I wondered whether there were other bioethical conflicts in the Muslim world. Are [...]
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
When Sunni and Shiite scholars disagreed over the ethics of cloning animals, I wondered whether there were other bioethical conflicts in the Muslim world. Are Muslims split over stem cell research and genetically engineered crops? Generally speaking, do they approach...
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Inside a supercollider, atoms are smashed together at such high forces that great masses of energy may result. However, as Douglas Preston explores in BLASPHEMY, it's the butting heads of humans that may yield far more violence. With all the debate over stem cell research and the ethics of cloning, is there a better time [...]
DallasNews Religion (Free subscription) | 11/14/2007
From the ubiquitous Dr. Art Caplan, medical ethicist at UPenn. A nugget: Now, news has broken that a team at the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Beaverton, Ore., has succeeded in cloning 20 macaque monkey embryos. The techniques they...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/10/2007
Artists love to go for the suppressed possibility, the dark hint. While scientists, research organizations, bureaucrats, politicians, doctors and world leaders argue tensely over the ethics of cloning, writers and filmmakers pour out their versions of utopias and dystopias where clones are an ordinary, if secretive, presence. Kazuo Ishiguro's little group of young people in the novel Never Let Me Go...
Slaminsky (Free subscription) | 11/05/2007
Michio Kaku (co-founder of string field theory) discussing the ethics of cloning in Metro magazine: There are some things we just have to accept. Cloning, for example. One day, rich people will start cloning themselves. How can you stop them? You can legislate against it but look at the drug trade today – people have got used to a certain fraction of society being heroin addicts. It's the same with...
