Author: Wesley J. Smith
An Example of Ethical Human Genetic Engineering
The primary ethical problems with CRISPR in humans so far have come from “germ line” genetic engineering.
“Ecocide” — Drive to Make Environmental Damage Legal Equivalent of Genocide Accelerates
If either or both of these radical proposals become law, human thriving and economic prosperity will be brought to a screeching halt.
Turning Our Dead into Fertilizer
These methods send a powerful symbolic statement that we are essentially nothing more than carbon atoms gathered temporarily in a rational and animated form.
Scientists Make Male Rat Give Birth
Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect — biological males giving birth — a reality.
New York High Court to Rule Whether Elephants Are “Persons”
Imagine: pet ownership made a formal legal guardianship complete with enforceable fiduciary duties — that is, if we can have pets at all.