It would appear that the western black rhino has bitten the dust. Not a western black rhino, but the western black rhino. There’s no more of them. It’s sometimes hard to say exactly what causes an extinction – something like predation might be the effective cause, but if the population of a species is not […]
Month: June 2013
The Value of Role Reversal
Guest Post by Rebecca Dresser, Washington University in St. Louis Not so long ago, medical researchers had a habit of using themselves as guinea pigs. Many scientists saw self-experimentation as the most ethical way to try out their ideas. By going first, researchers could test their hypotheses and see how novel interventions affected human beings. Today […]