The science of dignity

A recent Nature news article regarding the latest battle on the animal research front takes us to Switzerland. There, the University of Zurich and another research institute are taking a case to the Swiss Supreme Court arguing against the rulings of a lower court, which banned two primate-based experiments that had been approved by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The proposed experiments were said to potentially offend the dignity of the animals, according to an external advisory board, overruling a decision by the veterinary office (responsible for animal welfare) who allowed the experiments to proceed.

This stems from a change in Swiss law back in 2004, which suggested that the dignity of animals had to be considered (see Article 120). As the accompanying editorial points out, using a subjective concept like dignity as our guiding compass in determining the moral legitimacy of research proposals is not only absurd, but dangerous.

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Deception blog round-up of recent research

I’ve neglected all the crimepsych blogs over the last few months (pressure of work and a doctorate to finish) but to make up for it, at least partially, I’ve published a round-up of all the interesting deception-related research from the last few months over on the Deception Blog. It’s in six parts (there’s a [...]

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Theres a girl in my school who i really like but i feel like im losing my shoot with her. i started talking to her in January(i know thats a long time but its been on and off)and things started to look up in early March. After she actually started texting me we decided to go to the gym together.Even though i've made big improvements since then i was very shy when we went to the gym and later on the night i promised to talk more to her the next day when i would be at the same party as her. to bad the only thing we said to each other was hi and bye as i talked to another girl for the entir

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