Today professional athletes are almost always evaluated by “scientific,” i.e. statistical, measurements of success and value, but the old-fashioned “eye test” is sometimes still invoked. The eye test refers to one’s impression from actually watching an athlete or team compete,…
Science and Discovery
Stem Cells in General
Much of the confusion over stem cell research involves misunderstanding of terms, so let’s begin with some definitions.
Stem cells are immature cells that are undifferentiated (i.e., they have not yet “decided” what kind of…
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,…
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,…
