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Bioethics of Gene Therapy
09/22/2024
Rafael Escandon

Dr. Rafael Escandon provides a brief history of the scientific discoveries enabling gene replacement and gene editing to become useful and potentially transformative therapies. These profound innovations come with profound ethical considerations. Escandon has worked in global clinical research and development and patient advocacy in the biotechnology industry for nearly 30 years and is currently the Founder and Principal of DGBI Clinical Research and Ethics Consulting – a consultancy to patient advocacy groups and to the biotechnology industry.

Daniel Dennett and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
09/08/2024
Gordon Orians

Presentation by Gordon Orians about the thinking of philosopher Daniel Dennett (who died recently at the age of 82). A vocal atheist and secularist, Dennett has been described as “one of the most widely read and debated American philosophers”. Dennett had a deep understanding of Darwin. His book, “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea”, asserts that, by upending Western ideas of causality (design without a designer) Darwin challenged our relationship with the biological world and how everything evolved. Gordon Orians guides our thinking about the deep implications of Darwin's basic idea. In the process, we may topple the pedestal on which we think we stand. Orians is Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of Washington. He has served as its Director of Environmental Studies. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.

Labor Day Stories ( private)
09/01/2024
Al Christians

HGP members provide personal stories relating to labor. Hosted by Al Christians.

Cult Awareness
08/18/2024
Lisa Kendall

At Friendly House, Lisa Kendall reports from the 2024 International Cultic Studies Conference about Personal Experience, Law and Public Policy, Fraud in Scientific Research. Lisa Kendall is founder and director of Counter Cult Coalition, an Oregon based nonprofit working to improve public policy to protect and provide for people who have grown up in cults.

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