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Let’s return to a first principle: Scientific experimentation is not categorically a public good. The 1932-1972 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, for example, in which nearly 400 syphilis-afflicted black Alabamans were unwittingly forced to endure their disease in order to facilitate medical research, remains a terrible blight on the U.S. Public Health Service. The purpose of the study was initially benevolent: trying to curb the raging syphilis epidemic among southern blacks. But its eventual costs in human life were appalling...
All these people have joined together to fight for the principle that no animal is ours to eat, wear, experiment on or use for entertainment. It’s no secret that PETA’s agenda calls for radical changes to our current treatment of animals. But PETA is...
Let’s do our own little psychology experiment. We walk through the Square every day, right? Imagine it in your mind. You’ve got Leavitt & Peirce, ABP, a few banks. Across the street, there’s CVS and the Coop, the Curious George store and...
The shift “sounds the death knell for [the school’s] delicate experiment in bridging theory and practice,” Watkins says.
Once it was out, the news that human embryos had been cloned flew around the world with the speed of sound bites bouncing off satellites ... It was the start of the fiercest scientific debate about medical ethics since the birth of the first test-tube baby 15 years ago. A...