Articles in English
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Debunking euthanasia’s myth of miserable suffering – the case of chronic locked-in syndrome patients
BMJ research, February 23, 2011 A survey on self-assessed well-being in a cohort of chronic locked-in syndrome patients: happy majority, miserable minority Authors: Marie-Aurélie Bruno, Didier Ledoux, Athena Demertzi, Steven Laureys (Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Centre and Neurology Department, University and University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium), Jan L Bernheim (Department of Human Ecology…
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I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme – a possible framework for testable scientific theories (p.167) I do not think that Darwinism can explain the origin of life. I think it quite possible that life is so extremely improbably that nothing can “explain”…
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Einstein once wrote that our technology has outevolved our humanity, but he didn’t seem much concerned about it. In his subsequent writings he appeared to be convinced that our humanity will catch up with technology. Einstein was wrong, it didn’t! We are now witnessing how science – the mother of technology – is disassembling society…
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To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life. (Czeslaw Milosz, Road-side Dog, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, p. 60)
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It is well known that we have a scientific censorship that defends the scientific establishment on our times. But what it happens when we have a public retention of knowledge according to its relevance or irrelevance? Who sets the agenda of what is knowledge? After almost 30 years after The Postmodern Condition (J. Fr. Lyotard),…
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