Blog - Could (or Should) Bioethicists Prevent These 14 Inevitable Scientific Breakthroughs from Changing The World?

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4th August 2010

For just a little levity on a Wednesday, click on this link at Cracked.com to see their reader’s picks for the 14 Inevitable Scientific Breakthroughs The World Will Regret!

Nearly all of them touch on some aspect of bioethics: nanotechnology, obesity and public health, genetics, transhumanism and more.

SPOILER ALERT: #1 is pictured below. And yes, the are all as funny as this one.

Summer Johnson, PhD

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