The Puzzling Consensus in Favor of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which bans certain types of genetic discrimination by employers and insurers, passed the House by a vote of 414 to one, and the Senate by a vote of 95 to zero. That means it’s a good idea, right? Wrong.
Suppose an [...]
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Re: discussion with someone yesterday. Of course, this is the kind of thing that gets filed under ‘duh’ ex-post by most (non-racist) people. This may be the best of all possible worlds in terms of testing intelligence outcomes pre-environmental effects. However, intelligence is still a fuzzy word, and for me to accept the research (one [...]
Savulescu proposes that instead of trying to detect whether an athlete has taken drugs, we should focus on measurable indications of whether an athlete is risking his or her health. So, if an athlete has a dangerously high level of red blood cells as a result of taking erythropoietin (EPO), he or she should not [...]
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