"While we want to encourage life-saving advances we must not let science advance in a moral vacuum, " he said.

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Science has shown that drug addiction is not a moral failing but rather a disease of the brain that can be prevented and treated.

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Professor Nutt has, laudably, staked the credibility of science in public policy on getting politicians to put away their moral sentiments and face up to statistics.

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The former professor of veterinary science, whose position as head of the Egyptian mother organisation carries moral authority across the region, beamed for the cameras recently as he greeted Anne Patterson, the American ambassador to Egypt, with a hearty handshake.

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" The moral of these two races, adds Mary Coleman, a political science professor at Jackson State University, is that there is a new reluctance on the part of blacks to "accept business as usual.

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"There are many occasions in which anonymity is a perfectly acceptable and, in fact, morally responsible form of behavior, and the protection of anonymity is a moral requirement, " said Rachelle Hollander, director of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology Program, which funded the project.

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Professor DON KETTL (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania): The sense of hypocrisy of an argument in favor of moral values and then not living up to them in the minds of many voters, but just as important a sense that the Republican leadership was at best asleep at the switch, and at worst complicit in an effort to cover this up for sometime.

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In fact, a new study in Psychological Science by Dr. Rhodes and Lisa Chalik suggests that this intuitive social theory may even influence how children develop moral distinctions.

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