Laslo Weger - Science

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The federal government should not subsidize the creation of new stem cell lines.

The government should not subsidize anything. However, they should not put roadblocks for organizations that want to create new stem cell lines either.

Stand Taken 8/12/2008 10:35 AM

Animal cloning should be allowed.

Since I believe human cloning should be allowed, it makes sense to believe animal cloning should be allowed as well.

Stand Taken 7/11/2008 8:27 PM

Human cloning should be allowed.

Since I do not understand why not, my default answer is yes...

Stand Taken 6/13/2008 4:04 PM | 1 comments

The use of nuclear weapons can be justified.

A weapon is a weapon. "Conventional" bombing of Tokyo in 1945 left over 100,000 dead; the Hiroshima explosion took 66,000 lives. And yet it was mainly the atomic bomb that convinced Japanese to surrender. Since the nuclear weapon was both more humane and more effective, why shouldn't it be used???

Stand Taken 6/6/2008 4:36 PM

Theories that no conceivable experiment can confirm should not be rejected outright.

The standard scientific method postulates that a scientific theory must be falsifiable, and not confirmable. That is, all propositions for which there is no experiment that could invalidate it are not scientific theories. As a matter of fact, most (or even all) theories of physics (such as theory of gravity) cannot be 100% proven.

Stand Taken 5/21/2008 8:31 PM

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Is research published in peer-reviewed scientific journals reliable?

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