Jason Silva, with a passionate rant on the importance of stem-cell research.
We interviewed Jason back when The Good Men Project first launched on his ideas on immortality. Now he’s back again, speaking about the possibilities of biotechnology, stem-cell research, and the future.
This video also appears on MoveOn.org.
Why does stem-cell research need passionate support? It’s going great guns and new benefits are coming every day.
Unless it’s a matter of conflating embryonic stem cell research with the other kinds of stem cell research. The embryonic stem cell research isn’t coming up with much. Except as a way of desensitizing the population to abortion. Which, I suppose, is a good for some folks.
Otherwise, this is like passionately supporting antibiotic research. Yeah. Good. So?
Jason, I’m not sure what anit-evolution means. What I hear you saying, though, is that stem-cell research is a next, necessary and important step in the evolution of life. I would probably agree with that. The challenge is that the more we know, and the greater our ability to manipulate things like gene sequences, the greater responsibility is placed on humans. Are we “good” enough to handle that responsibility? Maybe. The more we know, the more we can do, and the more we can do, the greater the capacity to do “good” or do “harm”. That is both exciting and… Read more »