Occupation: Professor Birth: 1950
Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but bec….
[Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolatio….
There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. ….
The challenge is for bioethicists to position themselves to be on panels, boards and other decision making bodies where oublic policy positions wil b….
People ask, 'Is the science going to run ahead of the ethics?' I don't think that's always the problem. I think it's that the science runs ahead of t….
With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think….
The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you w….
The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics..
Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health..
A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA..
The more you start prohibiting donors, the more you are going to have less blood in the supply. It's still not clear you can get it from blood transf….
Bodies aren't the same as Coca-Cola cans..