On the other hand, opponents argue that using animals for human purposes often involves exploitation and cruelty. Practices in factory farming, animal testing, and entertainment industries frequently subject animals to inhumane conditions, pain, and suffering. Critics assert that animals, as sentient bei...
Every year this section gives out theAwful AI awardfor the most unethical research or event happening within the scientific community and beyond. Congratulations to AI researchers, companies and media for missing ethical guidelines - and failing to provide moral leadership. ...
Another potential climate change-induced problem is our dependence on commodity crops- wheat, soybeans, corn and rice- which currently provide humanity with 75% of its calories, either directly or indirectly through the animals we raise on those crops. Jarvis and his colleagues also found that, ...
Using the term “enterprising self” to describe this new type of subjectivity, Nikolas Rose indicates how selves are invented and endowed with autonomy and individual aspirations. [The self] is to strive for personal fulfillment in its earthly life, it is to interpret its reality and destiny ...
Pop culture can reflect cultural mores and suggests to society which behavior is good and moral, or immoral and unethical. In his book "Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture," Barry Brummett explained that we should look at pop culture as a source for constructing meaning of common social the...
He pointed out our tendency to anthropomorphize inanimate objects. “We as humans attribute human qualities to many things; designers have been using this for years – even cars are designed to look like animals. The more lifelike, or animal like, it is, the more we attribute those qualitie...
It is harder to convince that non-human cloning is wrong and unethical, but it is just the same. Western culture and tradition has long held the belief that the treatment of animals should be guided by different ethical standards than the treatment of humans. Animals have been seen as non-...
entertainment, but you must be sure to have them at various levels in order to attract different types of birds. Locate the feeders where you can see them. Ground feeders, such as sparrows, bobwhites and doves prefer to eat from the ground. Just scatter a variety of seed around for them...
we also have responsibility for it. Assigning responsibility to the artefact for actions we designed it to execute would be to deliberately disavow our responsibility for that design. Currently, even where we have imperfect control over something as in the case of young children, owned animals, an...
Just as hydroxychloroquine was repurposed based onin vitro(cell culture and biochemical) studies showing antiviral activity that didn’t translate toin vivo(in experimental animals or humans) activity, it was proposed to repurpose ivermectin based onin vitroobservations of antiviral activity. Just as ...