Not exact matches
As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the
near - universal
human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do
anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn
human life.
That innate and primal, mama bear, I'll do
anything for my kid, impulse has been systematically captured by a
near religiously upheld practice of aggressive and proactive management of the
human body.
They love to be
near their special people at all times, but sometimes you have to leave to do
human things like going to the store, or work, the doctor or
anything else.
If they win, the consequences will be more horrifying than
anything we've experienced since the
near human extinction event of about 110,000 years ago, when there were about 10,000 of us left.
We are probably now somewhere
near the hottest climate
humans have ever lived in (mainly because we are in an interglacial), so
anything much warmer is uncharted territory.
If there is any debate at all, it tends to be between skeptics — who doubt AI will achieve capabilities equivalent to a
human lawyer in
anything like the
near future — and those with more terrifying visions of grim disruption.