SciFri Radio: Ethics

SciFri Radio: Teaching A Chimp To Speak In ‘Project Nim’
A new documentary looks at a controversial 1970s experiment to teach a chimpanzee sign language.

SciFri Radio: Privacy At Stake As Sites Track Online Preferences
Bit.ly's Hilary Mason talks about services sites hope to provide by collecting online browsing data.Bit.ly's Hilary Mason talks about services...

SciFri Radio: Scientists and Advocacy?
A group of climate researchers has banded together to speak out on climate change, providing a unified voice against climate policy skeptics. But...

SciFri Radio: Science and Morality
In this hour of Science Friday, we'll talk with philosophers and scientists about the origins of human values.

SciFri Radio: Punk Rock Evolution
Ira talks with Greg Graffin, a lecturer in the life sciences at UCLA -- and singer /songwriter for the band 'Bad Religion.'

SciFri Radio: Looking at the Ethics of Personalized Medicine
One of the biggest promises offered by research into human genetics is the prospect of 'personalized medicine.' But is personalized necessarily good?

SciFri Radio: Stem Cell Policy Update
This week, a federal district court judge blocked President Obama's executive order dealing with federal financing for embryonic stem cell...

SciFri Radio: Research Misconduct
How well does science police itself? We'll talk what researchers do when they encounter misdeeds.

SciFri Radio: Of Email, Data, Graphs and Climate
Two investigations have cleared researchers at a climate research institute of wrongdoing after questions were raised about comments made in email...

SciFri Radio: The Ethics of Synthetic Biology
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues took up the idea of synthetic biology this week.

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