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Bioethicist Asks, “Does Birth Matter?” Answers, “No”

In our current episode of let’s-allow-baby-killing, an Australian bioethicist named Walter Veit comes to the defense of infanticide. Read More ›
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Photo: Lab rats, by Jason Snyder from Washington, DC, United States [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists Make Male Rat Give Birth

Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect — biological males giving birth — a reality. Read More ›
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Algorithmic Specified Complexity: The Game of Life

Hobbyists have designed highly complex patterns using John Conway’s simple rules of birth, death, and survival. Read More ›
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Top Medical Journal: No Sex Designation on Birth Certificates

The authors also want sex designations removed from important documents such as passports. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: On Designed Obsolescence

Dying actually begins at conception. From the moment of conception the directions for a person’s demise are passed on to every cell. Read More ›
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The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology”

We still are not close to designing any self-replicating machine. That is still pure science fiction. Read More ›
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In Search of Self-Replicating Clocks

That Darwinism seems even superficially plausible depends completely on the ability of living things to reproduce themselves without significant degradation. Read More ›
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Darkness Rising: As It Turns Out, Not All Newborns Have a Right to Life

The culture of death — the dehumanization of the vulnerable and the unwanted — is fast upon us. Read More ›
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Biologist Nathan Lents: Beauty in Error

He has a different take on imperfection, one more optimistic than one might expect from someone who writes about what’s wrong with us. Read More ›

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