Ethical Thought

Illegal kidney trade is flourishing!

The pope has called upon media outlets to behave.

BBC:

Pope urges ‘more ethical’ media

Pope Benedict XVI has called on the media to underpin its work with ethical considerations and do more to promote the “dignity of the human being”. CWS

Pope encourages study of ethics in media

Vatican, Jan. 24, 2008 (CWNews.com) – “The media must avoid becoming spokesmen for economic materialism and ethical relativism, true scourges of our time,” writes Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) in his annual message to the world of communications.

Just who are those Ravelry people? Well they did a survey to find out!

Voters may prescribe health care fix
By LEAH BETH WARD
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
Washington voters could be the first in the nation to directly decide what kind of health insurance system their state will have.

‘Safe Ebola’ created for research

Scientists have made the lethal virus Ebola harmless in the lab, potentially aiding research into a vaccine or cure. Taking a single gene from the virus stops it replicating, US scientists wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.

The world’s first commercial cargo ship partially powered by a giant kite is setting sail from Germany to Venezuela. The designers of the MS Beluga Skysails say the computer-controlled kite, measuring 160sq m (1,722sq ft), could cut fuel consumption by as much as 20%.