Philosophy Wire: Scientific Resurrection. Philosophical Death. Miracles.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-09-27]: A biotech company in the US has been granted ethical permission to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury, to test whether parts of their central nervous system can be brought back to life. [1] We do now know what life is, we do not know what death is and yet we will soon be proclaiming ourselves gods resurrecting people. We want to do everything and at some point we believe we will actually succeed. However we thought Jesus Christ was too much for us. Arrogant scientists have been cut-off from philosophy. And they show it with every opportunity...

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Philosophy Wire: Scientific announcements: A dangerous game...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-01-12]:

"Low vitamin D is a marker — not a cause — of disease, research review suggests. A large review of all major studies of vitamin D has found that taking vitamin D supplements does not offer protection against acute respiratory infections or chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, dementia, depression and Parkinson’s disease." [1, 2]

"Vitamin D plays an important role in regulating the immune system in health and disease and may be beneficial for patients with multiple sclerosis." [3]

A non-philosophical question: What grade would you put to a high school student who wrote these two contradicting conclusions in the same paper?

It is time to get serious!
Antiphaseis in hasty scientific announcements have reached a limit! It is a good thing to publish (and get funding), but it is also good to know what you are publishing!
Human lives are not a game!

It is time the scientific community becomes a COMMUNITY!

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