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As Australia's lawmakers consider the implications of the Lockhart review on embryonic stem cell research, the time has come for both church leaders and scientists to pay attention to the 'conscience of the nation'.
Debates about primacy of conscience illustrate the necessity for a passion both for truth and for freedom.
Curiosity may have been the death of the cat, but it is the lifeblood of science. Recently Archimedes came across two delightful examples of how human the events leading to advances in scientific research can be.
Archimedes would argue that such science forms the backbone of our society, in the way that adequate sewerage, clean water and good dietary information do more for human health than heart transplants and Viagra.
Western intelligence agencies fell down badly over Iraq. So did our consciences, argues Bruce Duncan.
The courtesy of God, the consequences of conscience and 20th-century giants
It has been one of those Australian summers where nature has been dominant. The heat, the drought, the dust and the ever-present, terrifying spectacle of the bushfires, sweeping away all in their path.
Biology can certainly document the process of human reproduction - but when human life begins is not a scientific but a moral question, which we ourselves have to decide.
Reviews of the books: Geography; Stem Cells: Science, Medicine, Law and Ethics and John F. Kennedy: An unfinished life.
No fewer than eight Fellows of the Royal Society of London were taught and inspired at secondary school by one science teacher, Len Basser of Sydney Boys High School. This fact emerged from the 2004 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science.
Archimedes has been in Queensland discussing science communication. Can it change society?
Matthew Lamb looks at Stuart Macintyre’s The historian’s conscience.
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