Chris Bateman
His most recent publication, The Virtuous Cyborg, asks what the good life might be for humans as intimately enmeshed with technology as we have become.
Articles
Red Science, Blue Science, What Science, No Science
“Our slender comprehension of the mysteries of the universe will be entirely undone by anything that prevents open debate about scientific evidence – regardless of whether this disruption emerges from partisanship or censorship.” ~ Chris Bateman
Who Owns Our Bodies?
“The very suggestion that medical interventions ought to be understood as a question of property is a call for a new kind of civilization where rather than equal citizens, all people are merely property waiting to be expropriated.” ~ Chris Bateman
Is Our Duty to Avoid Harm Unlimited?
“That this bizarre splinter society is also one that turns its back on our human rights is merely the confirmation of what many of us have long suspected: that the politicization of a nasty virus now threatens to unravel civil society in its entirety.” ~ Chris Bateman
Galileo versus the CDC
“You don’t help scientists learn the truth by shielding them from counterarguments – you largely destroy the most important source of that vital pressure to keep searching for the truth.” ~ Chris Bateman
