Biology vs. the Blank Slate
Evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker deconstructs the great myths about how the mind works.
Biotechnology
To Enhance or Not To Enhance
When is it moral to genetically engineer your offspring?
Anti-Cloning Disinformation?
Desperate opponents try to frighten lawmakers with bogus scares.
Hooray for Designer Babies!
Sliding gently down the slippery slope to prevent genetic diseases.
Is Biologist Barry Commoner a Mutant?
Apparently old radicals never die--nor do they fade away.
Birthmarks and Bioethics
Why is the head of the President's Council on Bioethics forcing its members to read Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Timid Bureaucrats Kill People
The FDA is past its expiration date in a world of gene therapies.
Right-Wing Biological Dread
The Subhumans are coming! The Subhumans are coming!
Calling Hippocrates!
When it comes to human cloning, President Bush should remember: First, do no harm.
Split Decision
What Bush's compromise on stem cells means for medical progress.
UN Shocks Neo-Luddites!
A new report concludes that biotech is the best hope for many of the world's poorest.
Dispatches from BIO 2001
Biotechies defend genetically modified food, stem cells, and cloning at their annual meeting.
Information Discrimination
How laws protecting genetic privacy can do more harm than good.
Monkeying Around with the Self
Why support for biotech shouldn't foreclose the debate over its moral issues.
The Pursuit of Happiness, Peter Singer interviewed by Ronald Bailey
Controversial philosopher Peter Singer argues for animal rights, utilitarian ethics, and A Darwinian Left.
