Belated Report on Albany

Well, here I am in London....blogging about events from before I left. Better late than never. First of all, the just-finished "Politics and Bioethics" conference--including my own talk--is covered in detail this piece from the Albany Times-Union. I arrived late at the conference Thursday, and so did not see the protests from the Not Dead Yet group that are described in the article. As for the Friday panel on "Politicizing Science" with Richard Doerflinger, the two of us didn't really tangle very directly over adult stem cell issues. The structure of the event, with a third panelist presenting on a different topic followed by wide-ranging audience questions, wasn't particularly conducive to a caged death match type of debate. I can report to you, though, that Doerflinger's talk contained many of the same arguments presented in his previously linked New Atlantispiece, which you folks criticized here. In essence, Doerflinger asserts that ...