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- Published on: 18 May 2017
- Published on: 18 May 2017Do Bioconservatives Really Have an "Untenable Ambiguity" Regarding Human Perfectibility?For full disclosure, I should begin by saying that I read this paper because I am personally acquainted with one of the authors, Johann Roduit, with whom I had a brief exchange about the paper and who encouraged me to submit my few critical thoughts to this site. Also, I should say that I am not an expert in bioethics, but simply an interested layman.Show More
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