Science as a Human Value

Science as a human value.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s comments on space exploration, told me that the ultimate goal of any medical researcher was “to touch the face of God”.1 When pushed for clarification, he asserted that science – neuroscience in particular – is a utopian pursuit (free from the foibles and fallacies that normally plague people), whose practitioners (i.e. scientists) must altruistically strive to ma...

Science as a human endeavour

Reviewed by Christopher Lawrence, M.B., Ch.B., M.Sc., Medical Historian to the Wellcome Museum at the Science Museum, London SW7 2DD. Though he makes no reference to it, Professor Kneller's theory of the origin of scientific knowledge and its change in time is almost identical to that found in Adam Smith's essay on the history of astronomy published in 1795. It is a theory based on the concept ...

Editorial : Sustainable Development of Cognitive Science and Technology Ecosystem an Overview to the “Human Brain Project” as a Functioning Sample

Human cloning: A soap opera as a science communication tool

Our objective in this work is to analyze the advantages, limitations, and challenges of a TV soap opera as a tool for communicating issues related to human cloning. Our object of study is O clone (The clone), broadcast by TV Globo, the main channel in Brazil, reaching an audience of approximately 85 million people per day. The methodology we used in our study was an 'exhaustive qualitative meth...

PEDUNCULATED SACRAL LIPOMAPRESENTING AS A HUMAN PSEUDOTAIL

 ABSTRACT A long pedunculated egg-shaped lipoma of the sacrum in a newborn infant, presenting as a tail, was treated surgically. Occult spinal dysraphism may be accompanied with this entity. Investigations for underlying dysraphism and its treatment are mandatory.