Professor Colin Blakemore assesses the intriguing implications of advances in neuroscience that have made it possible to communicate with those in a vegetative state:
Astronomy, from Copernicus on, has transformed our view of the place of the earth in the heavens. Darwin changed forever our view of the status of humanity. Neuroscience is likely to challenge our very understanding of what it is to be a person.
The Daily Telegraph’s interview with John Wick, UK MPs’ expenses benefit fraud whistleblower:
There were three versions [of the MPs’ expenses database] … there was an unredacted version and two redacted versions.
We’ve reached a stage in society where they want to know everything about us. I think we’re entitled to know about them.
I like the way the Telegraph has gone about publishing this material. If they’d published it all at once the story may have faded away and there wouldn’t be as bigger shit storm as there is.
Update: Title updated for accuracy and context.