Lewis Wolpert - The nonsense of bioethics [video]

Biologist Lewis Wolpert talks about what he perceives to be a ridiculous concept. Visit http://www.webofstories.com/people/lewis.wolpert for more of inspiring and controversial stories from Lewis Wolpert.

Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS FRSL (born October 19, 1929) is a South African-born developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. He was educated at the University of Witwatersrand (BSc), Imperial College London, and at King's College London (PhD). He is currently Emeritus Professor of Biology as applied to Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and developmental biology at University College London. In addition to his scientific and research publications, he has written about his own experience of clinical depression in Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression (1999).

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[scar504]

Whoa a bottle of champagne!

[webofstories]

@scar504 Are you going to try for it?

[TheLiberalSoup]

This is such a good point. Fuck those "you're playing god" assholes.

[RosesOfTimes]

His ass was whipped by Lane Craig in debate ROFL

[LettuceReason]

1. How does a newborn survive outside the mother with miminum support?

 2. they "almost" behave like embryonic stem cells......"almost?" 3. safety on animals is ETHICS. Looks like it's Wolperts ethics perhaps. He is contradicting himself. A child could see through this confusion.

[chrish12345]

There's Champagne and then there's Champagne - I personally wouldn't bother to turn up unless it was Krug, or maybe Grande Dame.