yet I’ve heard enough stories over the years about the Johns brothers that nothing crass, selfish, dangerous, destructive or insensitive that either of them could ever do will ever surprise me.
ethics & philosophy
ideals, breaches, disappointments and inspirations
Sex Bias in BioMedicine
Women remain vastly underrepresented in biomedical research despite significant differences in the way they experience many diseases, medications and therapies compared to men. Despite federal mandates to include women in studies, there is much that still needs to be done, says Teresa Woodruff, a leading women’s health scientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in a June 9 commentary in the journal Nature.
Repellent rape apologists
TRIGGER WARNING.
revisiting what is apparently an old argument of his: that clear cut cases of rape and sexual enslavement of women allegedly ordered by God in the early books of the Bible might just not “really” be “rape”
Facebook privacy: they’re gonna fix it?
So they say. I bet they’re only going to go so far. They still want to profit from that info. FACEBOOK has caved in to pressure from critics and said it would simplify controls over the degree of privacy given… Read More ›
Massaging circulation figures?
I was surprised to see a friend toting a Murdoch tabloid around in her car, and learned that it had come free with her earlier emergency drive-through caffeine+muffin hit from a McDonald’s. It seems that everybody gets one now when… Read More ›
Reconciling abortion with my motherhood
At some point during my own pregnancy I knew I would confront my pro-choice politics, not because I had had an abortion in the past but because I could have, and because I believe so strongly in my right to… Read More ›
Quick Hit: In Which I am Impressed
I’ve long thought that the voting age in Australia should be lowered to 16 — I’ve believed this since I was 16 years old myself and had to content myself with handing out how-to-vote cards, because I was unable to… Read More ›
If anyone is small minded enough to complain…
…but why on earth would anyone be so silly as that?
Sonoma County demonstrates why I support marriage equality
Because for too many people in the world nothing less than marriage confers any domestic partner’s rights at all, no matter what other legal “protections” and arrangements are put into place.
Vatican tells bishops to report abuse cases to police
Just posted this over at LP, but I’d like to have this discussion here as well. The Guardian: Vatican issues detailed instructions to all bishops after criticism of Catholic church’s handling of paedophile priests Yep. Not actually that hard to… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 