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Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the internet really is an amazing thing, in which you write a blog post that takes issue with Peter Singer’s characterization of the capabilities of people with Down syndrome, and then find, a few weeks later, an email from Peter Singer in your inbox. Last month, Singer wrote to say he’d come across my post about the SUNY - Stony Brook Cognitive Disability conference...
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Phi Beta Cons (Free subscription) | yesterday
... coming soon to Princeton. Added attractions? Exchanges between Dinesh D'Souza and Peter Singer on infanticide, euthanasia, bestiality, and necroph... . . .
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io9 (Free subscription) | yesterday
By , on Mon Dec 1 2008, 402 views A new pre-natal screening program in Denmark has halved the number of babies with Down's Syndrome. The success of the program, undeniably a form of eugenics, raises a number of questions about how far people should go with pre-natal screening - and what kinds of conditions merit termination of a pregnancy. Many people, including the infamous bio-ethicist Peter...
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The Age (Free subscription) | yesterday
... after being a vegetarian for a couple of years, she discovered the work of Australian ethicist Peter Singer, who wrote the influential book Animal Liberation and later co-wrote The Ethics of What We Eat."After reading this book, I felt even stronger in my conviction to not eat meat, knowing that by doing so I was greatly reducing my CO2 emissions (less land-clearing for cattle), reducing...
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Reflections of a Paralytic (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
You must watch this video of Wesley Smith speaking at Princeton University after infanticide and euthanasia enthusiast Peter Singer received his tenured chair at the school a few years ago:
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The Point (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Peter Singer writes in Newsweek that as we move towards a "nonspeciesist" world, we will go from requiring factory farmers to keep chickens and pigs in crates large enough to allow them to "stand up, lie down, turn around and...
