Category Archives: luddites

deathist movie

In Renaissance (2006) there’s a Big Sinister Corporation whose advertising tagline is “Health, Beauty, Longevity.” Oo, scary! I don’t think we’re ever told what Avalon sells (vitamins? cosmetics? medical treatment?) but it doesn’t matter. The noirish visual style suffices to … Continue reading

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guess what

Travis doesn’t like “bioethicists” either.

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Elmer Ludd

Ronald Bailey slaps Francis Fukuyama silly. Thanks to Monica White and Perry Metzger for the link. (See also Happy Fun Pundit‘s response to Fukuyama’s previous bio-luddite essay.)

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Fukuyama III

I’ve been looking through my blog archives for major items to add to the “past rants” list on my front page [since removed, Dec’04], as well as for broken links. That activity led me again to Francis Fukuyama’s goofy screed … Continue reading

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bioethics IV

Amy Greenwood takes on those pestilential ‘bioethicists’ whom I have heckled more than once. Yes, if the world is different, we will think about it differently. So what? A worldview in flux is not an ethical problem, and why assume … Continue reading

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bioethics III

Randall Parker goes after the bioLuddethicists at some length. If there’s ever a charity dedicated to rejuvenating the poor, might I suggest that priority be given to those whose native language is dying out?

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a pox on bioethicists II

Apparently Mr Bush has created something called the President’s Council on Bioethics. Now, I’ve never heard that term except in connexion with some chin-puller’s opinion that it’s naughty to tamper with God’s Will Nature by curing infertility or whatnot; so … Continue reading

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