Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Gambling addiction

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  When gambling opportunities were rare and often illegal in the U.S., gambling addiction was a less visible problem than it is becoming tod...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Menthol cigarettes get a reprieve

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 The WSJ has the story: Biden Administration Shelves Plan to Ban Menthol Cigarettes . White House had been weighing health benefit of ban ag...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Proposed age-adjusted smoking ban in the U.K.

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  The BBC has the story, about a proposal to ban smoking for everyone currently under the age of 18. (What could go wrong?) What is the UK ...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Text of the new EU regulations on Substances of Human Origin

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 Kim Krawiec points me to this newly published document, with the 'final' regulations intended to prevent compensation of donors of ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The Ethical Limits of Markets by Kim Krawiec

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 Here's a new summary by one of the leading scholars of "taboo trades." Kimberly D. Krawiec, " The Ethical Limits of Mark...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Kidney Markets--my debate with Debra Satz (video)

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The video of my debate with Debra Satz on kidney markets is now available, see below.   You can also find it here:  https://humsci.stanford...
Monday, April 22, 2024

Plasma donation in the EU: compensated and uncompensated

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 Here's a commentary on the EU Parliament's current efforts to ban compensation to plasma donors in the EU, published today.  Julio ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

New York is about to end its legal ban on adultery

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A 1907 New York state law criminalizing adultery (as a misdemeanor) looks likely to be repealed. New York adulterers could get tossed out of...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Talks at Washington State University, today and tomorrow

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Below is the announcement for a public lecture I'll give today at Washington State University, in Pullman, WA.   Bertha C. and Roy E. Le...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Vatican statement on gender-affirming surgery and human dignity

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 A new statement from the Vatican has been widely covered in the press. Here's the story from the National Catholic Reporter: Vatican co...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Kidneys: compensation and altruism

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 Apropos of my debate with Debra Satz this afternoon , here are two articles about kidney donation, from pure altruism or with compensation,...
Monday, April 8, 2024

Kidney Markets with Alvin Roth and Debra Satz (tomorrow, at Stanford)

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  Tomorrow Debra Satz and I will respectfully disagree with each other about the prospects for and desirability of compensation for kidney d...
Friday, April 5, 2024

Still illegal in Idaho

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  Here's a map from The Hill of places where marijuana will be legal to various degrees by the end of this year. Grey states are where m...