Here I sit down with Roger Severino, my colleague at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, to discuss medical ethics, the future of biomedical technology, and other themes from my book.
Well done on a very clear and compelling interview. My feeling is that eugenics remains a very strong and insidious influence in contemporary medicine, especially in my country of Australia. Forty years of dominance of Peter Singer's philosophy has made prenatal genetic testing very mainstream practice here. It breeds a very nihilistic mentality towards humanity within government health departments, hospitals and especially medical schools. One manifestation is a pervasive inability to subject the mRNA technologies to the kind of rational scientific scrutiny that was once prized within medical research and education. Under this Singerian intellectual paradigm the science of pharmacology has virtually collapsed in medical schools since there is no longer any need to question anything big pharma tells us concerning their products. The minority of remaining people upholding traditional values in healthcare face difficult days ahead on both sides of the Pacific. Keep up the good work!
Well done Doctor.
Well done on a very clear and compelling interview. My feeling is that eugenics remains a very strong and insidious influence in contemporary medicine, especially in my country of Australia. Forty years of dominance of Peter Singer's philosophy has made prenatal genetic testing very mainstream practice here. It breeds a very nihilistic mentality towards humanity within government health departments, hospitals and especially medical schools. One manifestation is a pervasive inability to subject the mRNA technologies to the kind of rational scientific scrutiny that was once prized within medical research and education. Under this Singerian intellectual paradigm the science of pharmacology has virtually collapsed in medical schools since there is no longer any need to question anything big pharma tells us concerning their products. The minority of remaining people upholding traditional values in healthcare face difficult days ahead on both sides of the Pacific. Keep up the good work!
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