As the world of medicine changes in the United States, its founding principles become more daily compromised and challenged. Medical ethics have become defined by limiting, human institutes such as the Code of Medical Ethics by the American Medical Association,…
Science and Discovery
Total brain death–the complete and irreversible cessation of functioning of all parts of the brain–has been widely accepted in ethics and law as a valid criterion for pronouncing the death of a human being. But in the last fifteen years,…
The universe is about 13.82 billion years old. Although it is well within the error range of earlier estimates, this new number means that the universe is slightly older than cosmologists previously thought. The new age comes as a result…
A few months ago I had a series of email correspondences with a South African man over the reality and trajectory of humanitarian aid and interventions in Africa. And one of his emails to me was about the tragic failure…
