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...argument is especially freighted when the U.S. is confronting an Arab world that is already deeply suspicious of its intentions. "People don't want a President to think that every important decision has a stamp of God's approval and that God is always on his side," says ethicist Cromartie. "I think people want their Presidents to be pious but not self-righteously so. So there's a paradox, isn't there? A President has to seem to be relying on God's wisdom but not acting like all his decisions are God's decisions." It's the difference between...
...SARS epidemic. Only one, 71-year-old military doctor Jiang Yanyong, went public with damning information. His colleagues, meanwhile, abetted a scheme to hide SARS patients in Beijing from World Health Organization inspectors. "Medicine is supposed to be the most ethical profession," says Qiu Renzhong, a medical ethicist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, "but Chinese doctors work in the most unethical environment...
...predicted, these emotional topics produced fireworks. At one point, the Nobel laureate James Watson, whose discovery 50 years ago with Francis Crick of DNA?s double helix was the inspiration for the three-day talkfest, showed that even at age 74, he could be as feisty as ever. When ethicist Daniel Callahan insisted that bioscientists didn?t absolutely need embryonic stem cells in their quest to cure certain intractable ailments, Watson roared from his seat: ?That?s crap.? Stunned into momentary silence, Callahan eventually replied that maybe scientists could use them under certain circumstances, ?but I?d hold my nose...
...bipartisan approach to governing," Lenoir says, "but also proves European policy has risen above the usual ideological divisions." Lenoir, 54, knows a thing or two about European policy and diplomacy. A lawyer who specializes in bio- and hi-tech matters, she was already one of France's leading legal ethicists when in 1994 she became president of the European Commission's advisory panel on science and technology policy. Her brief ranged from data secrecy to cloning and involved deliberations with researchers, politicians and business people across the E.U. Before that, Lenoir presided over UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee. Her expertise...
...some government oversight, there would be no knowing for certain whether scientists were violating the law against actually implanting a cloned embryo in a surrogate mother. And if someone found out? "No government agency is going to compel a woman to abort the clone," argued University of Chicago medical ethicist Leon Kass at hearings earlier this summer...