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Bioethics
5 posts
Will ‘DNA Phenotyping’ Lead to Racial Profiling by Police?
Bioethicists, geneticists, attorneys, and cops weigh the pros and cons of a radical new science.
Selling Your Body to Science
Medical research depends on human subjects, but should we pay people to be our guinea pigs?
Fifth Period: Life and Death Decision-making
Ethical quandaries at the nexus of science, technology and society are making it into high school curricula.
Do Panels Dispense Advice or Rationales?
The partisanization of just about everything in D.C. leaves a scientific advisory panel on bioethics moored in ideological shoals.