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Why I Am Pro-Life
Or, “Stop Insisting that I Hate Women and Thump Bibles Just Because I Take a Viewpoint You Oppose.” A guest post by Pete Hitzeman I am a Christian. I am a conservative. I am Pro-Life. But I am not … Continue reading
Julian Assange: The new kingmaker?
The rise of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks represents the rise of the non-state actor as a significant force on the world state. While historically such actors were terrorist groups, Assange and his website represent a new entry: that of the … Continue reading
Posted in Defense, Diplomacy, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Groups, Nations, News, Security, Society, United States, WikiLeaks, World Watch
Tagged Consequences, Governments, Julian Assange, non-state actors, WikiLeaks
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Can a non-state actor kill government transparency?
Via The Daily Beast, over at Newsweek, Christopher Dickey makes the point that the WikiLeaks dump of classified State Department documents could have the effect of making the government more closed and more opaque both to the world and within … Continue reading
Posted in Diplomacy, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Intelligence, Nations, News, Politics, Security, United States, World Watch
Tagged actions, Consequences, Julian Assange, non-state actors, opacity, transparency, WikiLeaks
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Scientific activism
Can a scientist participate in activism and still remain true to the spirit of scientific method? James Hansen, one of the leading scientists in climate change research, is also renown for his ongoing climate change activism, which has led to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Ethics, Philosophy, Science and Technology
Tagged activism, activists, Beliefs, decisions, objectivity, scientific method, scientists
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Does synthetic life prove something else?
Certain parts of the interwebs are atwitter with the news that scientists in the United States have managed to create a cell containing a synthetic genome (that is, one that was manufactured as a copy of an existing genome) that … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, News, Predictions, Society, Synthetic Life
Tagged capacity, century, creation, Humans, Life, Reality, science, Synthetic Life, the end
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