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...Dear FM Ethicist, Whenever I go home to the Mid-West, I feel really uncomfortable telling people where I go to school. My parents like to flaunt my Harvard degree, but I like my anonymity. Should I ask my parents to stop? Thanks, Confused Dear Confused, We’ve all walked in your shoes. Many times I’ve told my parental units’ friends that I attend Harvard. They stare in shock and awe when I drop that bomb like I’m over Baghdad. They genuflect. They whisper “genius...
Dear FM’s Amateur Ethicist, I bought a friend a number of gift vouchers to About Hair. Recently, I learned of the prostitution allegations Cambridge police have levied against the shop, and I’ve been struck with guilt. Should I tell him about the shop’s dirty goings-on? Should I be concerned for him or his safety? I feel really embarrassed about the situation. Thanks, Ms. Worried at the Breakfast Table Dear Ms. WBT, I understand that you’re concerned that you patronized a shop that may have broken...
...pack an emotional wallop that brings many to tears--especially adoptees, descendants of slaves and others who previously had little knowledge of their roots--skeptics have raised questions about their accuracy. "When genetics becomes a direct-to-consumer product, it gets oversimplified and oversold," says Hank Greely, an ethicist and lawyer at Stanford Law School who specializes in genetics and biotechnology. Although it is relatively easy to determine African or Asian ancestry, it's more difficult to pinpoint roots in, say, the Ivory Coast or Sri Lanka. Accuracy will improve as genealogical databases acquire more samples, but many in this...
...both her male and female children, illuminates only your mother's female ancestry. "If you go back 300 years, you have more than 1,000 ancestors. They are telling you about 1 in 1,000 of your ancestors. I think they should make that clear," says Stanford ethicist Greely...
DIED. MARC LAPPE, 62, outspoken medical ethicist and founding fellow at New York's Hastings Center; of cancer; in Gualala, Calif. Regularly called as an expert witness on environmental contamination, he gave testimony on silicone breast implants that helped lead to a $3.2 billion settlement by Dow Corning Corp., the implants' manufacturer, in 1992--the year the FDA banned general use of the implants...