Tag: Steven Pinker

Disdain for bioethics ignites controversy

By Michael Cook Harvard star performer and leading American public intellectual Steven Pinker has set the cat [caused trouble] amongst the bioethicists . In an op-ed in the Boston Globe Pinker argued that bioethicists should just “get out of the way” of life-saving research. Blogs by bioethicists started to light up like Christmas trees. The …

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Steven Pinker Pushes Unethical Human Research

By Wesley J. Smith Steven Pinker believes in scientism. What’s more, he doesn’t seem to believe in robust ethics. That is the gist of his column arguing against ethical restraint in medical research involving human subjects and within cutting-edge fields such as germ line genetic engineering. And he blames bioethics–of all fields–for slowing down medical …

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