ABSTRACT
The experiments reported in The Tearoom Trade raised a storm of ethical judgments, which eventually led to tough new standards for social scientific research. Philosophy has to rely on ethical intuitions and assumptions that have their sources in other realms, realms that appear to lie outside the boundaries of the sciences. Science provides detail about how warfare technologies work and what they will do. Religious supporters of new military technologies usually focus on pragmatic arguments, that is, on the ends that advanced weapons can serve. The different religious traditions respond in very different ways to the debate about using stem cells. The stem cells gradually become the neurons, bones, and diverse organs of that complex system that is the human body. Many scientists expect that they will eventually bring life-saving relief for victims of heart disease, brain disease, diabetes, backbone disease, and even cancer. Many human diseases can be traced back to a single gene.
