tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post4627328763829246962..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: Man....or Superman?Anne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-89245665285701169382013-01-14T22:29:03.337-05:002013-01-14T22:29:03.337-05:00PS I think such a post deserves to be on a major ...PS I think such a post deserves to be on a major newspaper and I am conflicted about how blogs have affected publishing.Josh Nicholsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-17521349487308148182013-01-14T22:28:04.395-05:002013-01-14T22:28:04.395-05:00I think you raise many important questions and poi...I think you raise many important questions and points in this post. Scientists always seem to think they know what is best in terms of everything, including even religion! I think the scientists and the public trust of scientists would greatly benefit from scientists acknowledging their ignorance in the open.<br /><br />I think the following paragraph explains why scientists will, however, not do this. We are to caught up in winning the race that we never stop to think about why we are running.<br /><br />"But a new generation has now taken over, with a short memory and made giddy by technology and a system that industrializes research 'productivity' the way General Motors produces cars (and one can debate who does a higher quality job of it). Bioethics, a recently coined field for universities to hire faculty in, occasionally comments on the relevant issues, but most often is used as a way to smooth the road for genomics scientists to do what they want--to humans, to animals, for profit, etc.<br />Josh Nicholsonnoreply@blogger.com