Last week, my email and blog alerts let me know about a “new” article on research into consciousness. Wesley Smith posted his entry on an article describing the activity of researchers in the UK seeking to reduce the 40% error rate in diagnosis of persistent vegetative state. Alex Schandenberg also featured the article and commented … Continue reading U.K. Article on Consciousness Research Contains Bombshell “Accusation”
Turns out the story ABC was doing on Warnock did run – and included part of Art Caplan’s remarks: When Dr. Jonathan Groner, a surgeon and ethicist at Ohio State University, heard of a suggestion by a well-known British philosopher that those with dementia have a “duty to die” in order to minimize the burden … Continue reading Followup on Caplan, Warnock and ABC
Art Caplan, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, dropped me a line to give me his reaction to Warnock’s comments about people with dementia. He gave these to a reporter at ABC but says they weren’t used in whatever coverage they ended up giving to Warnock: No one has a duty to … Continue reading Followup on Warnock – Art Caplan Strongly Disagrees With “Duty to Die”
Last week, Baroness Warnock, a well-known “ethicist” who has advised the British Government on health care policy for ages, shocked advocates for the elderly in the UK when she suggested that people with dementia should be assisted in killing themselves or even outright killed. She suggested that the lives of these people are a “waste” … Continue reading Bioethics Blog Defends Warnock’s Call for Killing of People with Dementia
I’m still trying to catch up with things I’ve missed while being offline the past few months. One happy discovery was to find that Dick Sobsey started up the ICAD blog in July and has been posting on it regularly. Some readers might be familiar with ICAD – the International Coalition on Abuse and Disabilities … Continue reading Important “New” ICAD Blog – and Important Info on Joe Biden
