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James - and others:
I appreciate your view James; I really do. My son has cerebral palsy. He
was born with it. Nevertheless I would not favor inflicting a chimpanzee
with cp for the sake of research which might result in some advancement in
treatment modalities for human children with cp. It would take how many
chimps to perform that research? Tens, hundreds, thousands? I cannot be
that vainglorious to think I am worth more than all those chimps - or my
son's quality of life would require sacrificing so much life of others
(even other species) .. I do however favor abortions to term and abortion
of a fetus without live memory would not offend my sensibilities. I know
that will shock many (perhaps even here), but life is hard and evolution
does require an ability to survive which may also seem cruel but until we
have a full understanding of genetic manipulation and the will, less
religious restraints, to modify genes I don't see another practical
choice. As a physician, do you?
Tell me why you disagree with me and why you might think otherwise. Others
are encouraged to provide their views. Of 455 subscribers here I would
expect that many of you have many divergent views about abortion, animal
research; the progressive view (whatever that is?), etc.? - and why so
many have so little to say - something I've been asking for over 20 years
on the interNUT?
On a totally unrelated topic, I have been on the net longer than most. I
was an early participant when studying programming at Durham Tech and with
PNEWS then on FidoNet only and distributed via the HUBS to BBSs all over
the country (that was 1982) - and there was no WEB then but easier to
research things using g0lpher and archie (both essentially dead
methodology now) and today's phenomenon-s (can that be plural?) is blogging
and the net is also a commercial toilet -- and spam, something that did
not exist before the 90s. And neither did commercial use before
privatization - the downfall of much of the net's better use in my view.
My point: The information overload is making the net irrelevant. Blogging,
or rather blog sites are killing mailing lists and the few which do work
have developed cult like followings but the information from them is not
worth your time because the people writing them do not have the
background; that is, experience or knowledge; they lack the credentials to
present the views and they have become what the net has become, a giant
tower of BABEL. My suggestion is to READ A BOOK.
I don't know how to overcome this except to disconnect from the net or try
to come up with a better system. Maybe Internet2 will be the way out of
this slime because if it doesn't the net will be just a cacophony of noise
which will dumb down those who look to the internet for anything besides
entertainment.
There are a few options which make some internet use worthwhile. There is
Questia -- and there is Highbeam and there are online journals but most of
anything that is good requires a subscription (like Questia and important
journals). It all comes down to spending the money and buying books,
journals and getting your information the old fashioned way.
OK, I know some of you will also find that objectionable. It is my view
which I believe to be right - so if you disagree, so so. I'll post your
views, all of them, and let others (you won't be challenged by me) discuss
it.
Hank
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Hank Roth wrote:
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> From: "James a. Mulick, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Cute. Jaak's remarks were about the book, and I suspect his sentiments in
> general are not much different from my own, about book and animals. See
> below, but first understand that psychological ethics require us to stand
> fully behind the contents of any research paper, including the rationale
> for performing the experiment, the methods, the data analysis, and the
> interpretation (welcome to graduate science lesson # 1 in psychology). I
> know Panksepp, and he's no antivisectionist. But then, maybe if we all
> wish real hard and respect the will of nature and feel things as deeply as
> we can, our babies won't get sick and won't need that nasty biobehavioral
> research any more. You think? Being a progressive does not require giving
> up facts in favor of feelings.
>
> James A. Mulick, Ph.D.
> Professor, Pediatrics & Psychology
> The Ohio State University
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