Transhumanism and the Limits of Democracy
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Ronald Bailey (Reason Magazine) is the award-winning science correspondent for Reason magazine and Reason.com, where he writes a weekly science and technology column. He is the author of the book Liberation Biology: The Moral and Scientific Case for the Biotech Revolution (2005), and his work was featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004. Bailey testified before a congressional committee in 2004 on the impact of science on public policy. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. In 2006, Bailey was shortlisted by the editors of Nature Biotechnology as one of the personalities who have made the “most significant contributions” to biotechnology in the last 10 years. His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Commentary, The Public Interest, Smithsonian, TechCentralStation, National Review, Reader's Digest and many other publications. Bailey won a 2004 Southern California Journalism Award for best magazine feature for his story, “The Battle For Your Brain,” which delved into the ethical and political conflicts over new brain enhancement technologies.
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