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Introduction To Proceedings From A Conference On Newborn Screening For Nontreatable Disorders, Maxwell J. Mehlman
Introduction To Proceedings From A Conference On Newborn Screening For Nontreatable Disorders, Maxwell J. Mehlman
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Taking Property Rights Seriously: The Case Of Climate Change, Jonathan H. Adler
Taking Property Rights Seriously: The Case Of Climate Change, Jonathan H. Adler
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The dominant approach to environmental policy endorsed by conservative and libertarian policy thinkers, so-called "free market environmentalism" (FME), is grounded in the recognition and protection of property rights in environmental resources. Despite this normative commitment to property rights, most self-described advocates of FME adopt a utilitarian, welfare-maximization, approach to climate change policy, arguing that the costs of mitigation measures could outweigh the costs of climate change itself. Yet even if anthropogenic climate change is decidedly less than catastrophic - indeed, even if it net beneficial to the globe as whole - human-induced climate change is likely to contribute to environmental …
Beyond The Torture Memos: Perceptual Filters, Cultural Commitments, And Partisan Identity, Cassandra Burke Robertson
Beyond The Torture Memos: Perceptual Filters, Cultural Commitments, And Partisan Identity, Cassandra Burke Robertson
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Who should face accountability for the mistreatment of prisoners in the war on terror? Five years ago, the scope of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib was first revealed; this year, the Justice Department admitted that a single suspect was waterboarded 183 times. Some at the bottom of the political hierarchy have already been convicted for their participation in prisoner abuse. Those closer to the top of the political hierarchy also find their actions subject to scrutiny, as the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility is carrying out an investigation into the professional conduct of the lawyers who authored the …
Will Directed Evolution Destroy Humanity, And If So, What Can We Do About It?, Maxwell J. Mehlman
Will Directed Evolution Destroy Humanity, And If So, What Can We Do About It?, Maxwell J. Mehlman
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In contemplating the technologies emerging from the Human Genome Project, nothing scares people more than the prospect that we will attempt to use genetic engineering to control the human evolutionary process.