Following the broadcast of The Big Donor Show, which caused much wringing of hands amongst bioethicists and others (including myself), it seems more Dutch are donating organs.
Well done, humanity. It takes a spectacular lie to get us to save lives.
Despite my cynicism, this is good news. More people will live because people donated their organs [...]
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A hoax that saves lives
Posted in bioethics, television on July 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Moral outrage (and televised donor choices)
Posted in bioethics, moral psychology, television on May 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Via the Neuroethics and Law blog, we have this story:
A Dutch broadcaster will air a show this week in which a terminally ill woman selects a recipient for her kidneys from three contestants, despite government calls for the programme to be scrapped…
She will make her choice based on the contestants’ history, profile and conversations with [...]
House of Commons and Senate webcasts
Posted in law, politics, research, television on April 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Parliament of Canada makes available webcasts of chamber business and public committee meetings. Direct links are here:
House of Commons
Senate
Political junkies will like this, although the user-interface needs a lot of work. Any website that needs a 27-page tutorial needs to be redesigned. At the top of my list to fix:
absence of audio-visual archives
links to [...]
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