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The poor cloning debate has turned into a thoroughly-beaten dead horse and yet, here I find myself, brandishing a fresh cudgel and eying the rhetorical equestrian corpse for some worthy target. Let me begin by doing something people rarely do when debating issues like this: state what I am actually defending.
I, Kyle Munkittrick, believe [...]
Oooooh! I provoked a response. The chaps over at Futurisms have made some rebuttals. I’m sure they’re great and I promise to read them, but right now I’m flipping burgers up on the roof in the Brooklyn sun. I’ll deal with Mr. Keiper‘s and Mr. Schulman‘s arguments when it’s raining and [...]
Bryan Caplan sure knows how to market a book. With one polemic paragraph, Caplan has managed to get a host of blogs to write about his upcoming book Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids. The offending clump of words:
I [...]
Tyler Cowen goads his readership with this paragraph from Caplan:
I confess that I take anti-cloning arguments personally. Not only do they insult the identical twin sons I already have; they insult a son I hope I live to meet. Yes, I wish to clone myself and raise the baby as my son. Seriously. [...]
Daily Dish contributor Patrick Appel took note of Bryan Caplan’s critique of Leon Kass. Appel, wary of cloning, was naturally swayed by Kass’ argument against cloning that would cause “pain and suffering” to early test clones. I responded via email and Appel (who apparently doesn’t like Kass much either) took my points [...]
The Venture Bros. is one of those shows I don’t really laugh out loud at until the third or forth time I watch an episode. It isn’t because the jokes aren’t hilarious the first time, it’s just that there is so much awesome compressed into every moment I don’t have time to laugh. “The Grand [...]
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Pop Bioethics, written by Kyle Munkittrick, is an effort to study the ethics of the continuing evolution of the human species via the lens of pop culture and be somewhat entertaining in the process.
Kyle's writing can also be found at Discover's The Crux, Slate's Future Tense, and at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. For questions or comments: comments [at] popbioethics [dot] com
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