Sentences with phrase «of human experiments»

In the world of human experiments, scientists have only transferred genes to make sick people healthy, not healthy people better.

The tremendous fossil discoveries of late have given us a lot more knowledge about the diversity of human experiments, and diversity is the theme that needs to be underlined.

By 2009, Edgerton's work had shown enough promise for the FDA to approve his and Harkema's request to do a set of human experiments with the electrode device.

At the beginning of human experiments with agriculture, the effects of changing the patterns of nomadic traditions and thus altering the landscape to suit the farmer's specific purpose were negligible for small communities.

Thereâ $ ™ s only one way to avoid the collapse of this human experiment of ours on Planet Earth: we have to consume less.

Not exact matches

Psychological experiments are great resources for understanding certain patterns of human behavior in the workplace.

Most of the experiments endeavour to reduce insect farming's most expensive input, human labour, which accounts for a stunningly high 60 % of costs (in the heavily mechanized cattle farming industry, by comparison, it's rare for labour costs to reach even half of that).

Invented by the Wright brothers as a psychological experiment to test the boundaries of human patience and basic comfort, airplanes are the in - demand, out - of - shape transportation of the future.

The results of the experiment would suggest that bird flu could potentially mutate to become transmittable between humans like the flu, a scary thought considering the human fatality rate from bird flu when contracted from birds was recorded as 60 percent in 2010.

In order to reduce human - shark interactions while protecting sharks at the same time, researchers are using a variety of scientific experiments and common - sense strategies.

If Roberts's experiment confirmed the scientific consensus about why the internet is so compelling, it also confirmed another evolving line of research — spending time in nature is really, really good medicine for the human brain.

Currently SQZ is developing its technology further using mouse models and human blood experiments to understand its mechanisms of action more fully.

The paper urges NASA to support Amazon's notional shipment service that would bring gear for experiments, as much as 10,000 pounds of cargo, and habitats to aid «future human settlement» on the moon.

To understand the levels of compliance to which most of us can be manipulated without even realizing we are being manipulated, just research the 1961 Yale University Milgram Experiment and the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, both experiments in human psychology that demonstrated extreme levels of compliance in ordinary human beings.

The theory behind it is simple: If Facebook has experimented on its users to find new and exciting ways to get us to use it in the way they'd prefer, we should also feel free to experiment on Facebook, and see if those experiments change how we think about what we share with one of the biggest repositories of human data in history.

Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human - animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos.

William, In the words of david berlinski: «Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for Zyklon B, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental ballistic missiles, military space platforms, and nuclear weapons?

Thus, for example, I will not address the question of whether we could rightly conduct the first experiments in human cloning, given the likelihood that such experiments would not at first fully succeed.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

Even if an experiment is not federally funded it falls within the purview of this Office in that human subjects are involved in the experimentation.

He pointed out how, because of the dominant reductionist view of human nature, scientists are increasingly tempted to treat the human individual as «an object to be investigated, measured and experimented upon» rather than as an «irreducible subject».

Due to the limited statistical and methodological certainty allowed by biological science, the occurrence of technical errors in biological experiments, the differences between human and animal embryo development, the rapidity by which the cloning procedure produces a totipotent zygote, and the philosophical and theological nature of the question, there is no biological experiment that will prove with moral certainty that a human zygote never exists during the OAR procedure.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

Training may cost money, but experiments made without thorough consideration of what has already been learned are much too costly in human terms.

But if the twentieth century's experiments in a brave new world have taught us anything, it is that attempts to institutionalize a revolution in global human solidarity have a way of repeating and amplifying the permanent problems of humanity.

I do also recognize a hierarchy of living beings in that I regard human life as more valuable than animal life and would not oppose essential medical experiments on animals, although I am not persuaded that all experiments are essential.

And so he experiments with Islamic culture, turns it inside out and upside down, flirts with it, chucks it aside, and performs endless dissections and experimentations to see whether truth can withstand the cut and thrust of human manipulation.

Engaging in this kind of thought experiment is great, because it forces us to think about the physicality of the coming kingdom and helps us picture a world full of human creations rather than one of fluffy clouds and winged babies babies flying around.

And we may suspect that Rousseau's claim that the experiment could not be «tried innocently» unless it were known in advance that orangutans were themselves human may be less sincere than his playful willingness to contemplate — in the name, of course, of research — acts of bestiality that would deny any distinct place in the creation to humanity.

«There would, however, be a method by which, if the orangutan and others were of the human species, the crudest observers could assure themselves of it even by demonstration; but since a single generation would not suffice for this experiment, it must be considered impracticable, because it would be necessary for what is only an hypothesis to be already proved true before the experiment that was to prove it true could be tried innocently.»

Toward that end, the State, the «law of the land,» gave him permission to experiment on human subjects put at his disposal.

Griffin further challenges the assumption of a «human monopoly on conscious thought» by noting that current experiments indicate that animals produce «event related potentials» which resemble those produced by human beings.

Persons whose symbolic universes emphasized the role of supernatural forces tended not to believe that society could be reformed through human action and refrained from experimenting personally with alternative lifestyles.

It may seem difficult, at first glance, to distinguish any kind of order in the jumble of experiments, organisations and theories whose incessantly growing mass forms the baggage - train of the human caravan.

I am still utterly terrified - if not by the thought experiment, then by the prospect (wait a few years) of performing the experiment for real, not only to construct human beings, but completely artificial spiritual beings, not machines, designed de novo.

(iii) the weakness of human nature (and a basic lesson in civics) as the religious right moves to shut the experiments down.

(iii) the weakness of human nature (and a basic lesson in politics) as the religious right moves to shut the experiments down; and, most importantly

Hundreds of educators, clergymen, and counselors are already experimenting with growth - oriented groups, and many others are eager to find group approaches for releasing human potential.

The human experiment would have failed, but God could continue on his quest for more intensive forms of existence, if not on this planet, then elsewhere in the universe.

-- Even though it's only a week and a half old, in this experiment, those who are deeply religious and claim to be «Good people of God» who should love all their fellow humans have removed the income from this man's life with complete disregard for the well - being of his family members as well.

The subsequent experiment in «ordered liberty» was achieved because, while some saw their liberty secured by God and others by their status as human beings alone, all agreed to be bound together for the sake of that liberty.

Your own church could easily experiment with films as a way of opening the human issues in religion to full understanding and care in the community.

Eight years of experiment and study as a professor of religion and the church at Emory University's Candler School of Theology have convinced Hopewell that «the congregation is as central to theological education as the human body is to medical education.»

Religious liberals, who claim to find God in human experience, should view as significant the two centuries of this American experiment with religious openness.

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

A first flash of illumination, intuitively accepted despite the risk of error; and as the intuition was increasingly confirmed by observation and experiment, it came to be embodied in the inherited core of human consciousness.

«The American democratic experiment will be debased and coarsened if it continues to deny the principle of the inviolability of innocent human life.

For, after all, the result of every scientific experiment is ultimately a subjective one, since it is human beings who decide whether a theory is proved or not.

Use your current «science» theory and now PROVE humans did this independent of experiment.

Unless survival can be with dignity and decency, unless there can be some prospect of a good life in a good society, perhaps it is better that the whole human experiment end soon.