Before the research can proceed, the scientists must persuade the elderly Mother Superior, Sister Miriam, and her middle-aged heir apparent, Sister Ursula, that it's a good idea.
Another option is allowing the research to proceed until scientists are satisfied they have a sufficient number of lines to study.
But when Gutting suggests that I don't take such philosophers seriously "because they don't proceed like empirical scientists, testing their ideas through experiments," I must disagree.
Haidt doesn't take such philosophers seriously, I suspect, because they don't proceed like empirical scientists, testing their ideas through experiments.
The advances come as the Bush administration, facing intense lobbying from the two sides, is reviewing the Clinton administration's proposal to let government-financed scientists proceed with the research.
Scientists proceed in their work confident that physical reality is knowable and trusting that our understanding of that reality is continually refined.
The committee's advice puts minister Lorenzin in a difficult position: She is under strong pressure from patients who want to undergo Stamina's therapy and are eager to have the trial proceed, while top scientists are telling her to abandon the idea.
Cook & the natives with all supplies desert the scientists, who proceed alone.
On top of that, an animal ethics committee must approve all animal-based research proposals before the scientists can proceed.
Still, on the continuum between benefits and risks, was there not a place where we could have allowed narrowly targeted research by our best scientists to proceed?
