Archive for December, 2007
The Nazi Medical Research Data: Use It or Lose It? (12)
In today’s podcast, we talk about one of the most egregious abuses of ethics in modern history: the horrible medical experiments carried out by Nazi physicians during WWII. Should we make use of the data that the Nazi doctors obtained, even though it was often gathered by taking the lives of Jewish prisoners in death [...]
Good News for Everyone
Recently, with Christmas still over a month away, two independent teams of scientists gave the world an early holiday present. And this is a gift that may keep on giving for years to come.
I’m talking, of course, about the announcment on November 20th that researchers had converted ordinary human skin cells into embryonic stem cells. [...]
