Bioethics: role of religion cannot be ignored

The moral meaning of religion for bioethics.

Religion's fundamental involvement with questions of disease, health, and medicine has given rise to concepts making substantial contributions to the field of bioethics. The purpose of this article is to examine such ongoing contributions in a general way, and then to review how the issue of whether medical technology should be used to prolong life might be approached from the standpoint of sev...

Why Hyperbolic Theories of Dissipation Cannot Be Ignored: Comments on a Paper by Kostädt and Liu

Contrary to what is asserted in a recent paper by Kostädt and Liu (“Causality and stability of the relativistic diffusion equation”) [1], experiments can tell apart (and in fact do) hyperbolic theories from parabolic theories of dissipation. It is stressed that the existence of a non–negligible relaxation time does not imply for the system to be out of the hydrodynamic regime. Also at UCV, Cara...

Comparing Bayes Model Averaging and Stacking When Model Approximation Error Cannot be Ignored

We compare Bayes Model Averaging, BMA, to a non-Bayes form of model averaging called stacking. In stacking, the weights are no longer posterior probabilities of models; they are obtained by a technique based on cross-validation. When the correct data generating model (DGM) is on the list of models under consideration BMA is never worse than stacking and often is demonstrably better, provided th...

Editorial comment: Ventricular assist devices for advanced heart failure: evidence that cannot be ignored.

Biological Risks and Laboratory-Acquired Infections: A Reality That Cannot be Ignored in Health Biotechnology

Advances and research in biotechnology have applications over a wide range of areas, such as microbiology, medicine, the food industry, agriculture, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology, among others. However, research with pathogenic agents, such as virus, parasites, fungi, rickettsia, bacterial microorganisms, or genetic modified organisms, has generated concern because of their...