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Do you suppose Steven Pinker’s broadside against professional bioethics oversight of CRISPR and other forms of gene editing–Pinker’s command to bioethics was brutally inflexible: “Get out of the way”–will change bioethics for the better? Or gene editing, for that matter? … Continue reading
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Do 12-step programs for addiction treatment work? Are 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous effective treatments for addiction? That long-time dispute has just popped up again, prompted mostly by an Atlantic article with the click-worthy title “The Irrationality … Continue reading
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Still going to pot The Republicans won big last Tuesday. But so did marijuana. Here’s a summary, from Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic: “Oregon and Alaska just became the third and fourth states to legalize the drug. Washington, D.C., … Continue reading
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Legalizing cannabis in order to legalize cannabis research?
The New York Times has been running a series of editorials and commentaries and blog posts backing legal marijuana. Even although it’s been clear for some time that’s where we’re headed, …
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Lab safety is even worse than you thought
The best single blog source for keeping up with the current smallpox-anthrax-flu-lab safety fiasco is Maryn McKenna’s Superbug, one of the Wired blogs. Some recent posts:
About the cache of old vials …
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