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Ethicalbionics.org
The Center for Ethical Bionics
First mentioned:	August 2007
Link to EthicalBionics.org

Ethicalbionics.org is the real-life website for a fictional Center for Ethical Bionics.

About

The Center for Ethical Bionics website is accessible through links that run horizontally across all of the site's page.

Sections

ABOUT

This section summarizes the creation and purpose of the Center for Ethical Bionics, and lists its founding members.

History

The creation and purpose is including in the following history:

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Founding Members

The founding members of the Center for Ethical Bionics include Dr. Steven Caldwell, Chairman and Founder; Dr. Michelle Scanlon, Senior Geneticist; Dr. Taryn McCarthy, Chief Ethicist; and Dr. Samuel Baker, Senior Bionic Researcher.

Dr. Steven Caldwell Dr. Steven Caldwell obtained an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University at the age of 23, specializing in microbiology, and later a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University. He spent several years at the Centers for Disease Control and then joined the MacLauren Foundation, where he began to explore his love of nanotechnology. While working on an article for the New American Journal of Science, he became concerned about the lack of ethics in bionics and decided to found the Center for Ethical Bionics in 1992. Dr. Caldwell has shared his expertise in ethical bionics by speaking to the United States Congress, the United Nations, and the National Medical Association. In 2006, he was the keynote speaker at IEEE's International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

Dr. Michelle Scanlon Dr. Michelle Scanlon has an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in Genetics from Duke University. She initially specialized in protein replication within the human body. She then spent several years working for the Department of Energy's Human Genome Project and refocused toward the use of genetic manipulation in contemporary cybernetics. Now working at the Center's headquarters, Dr. Scanlon has moved on to bionic gene therapy, a process where Computerized Nucleic Acid (or CNA) is inserted into an abnormal, disease-causing gene. The CNA then acts as a carrier, genetically altering the diseased cells and delivering therapeutic materials to healthy ones.

Dr. Taryn McCarthy Dr. Taryn McCarthy has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Harvard, and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Dr. McCarthy then began working at the Genetics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. In 1993, Dr. McCarthy joined the Center. As Chief Ethicist, she conducts regular analyses of genetic research in tandem with top psychologists that is published in the Center's annual publication "Principles of Bionics". Dr. McCarthy is often recognized as the creator of the phrase "bio-morals", a term that describes the set of ethical principles used in bionics and biomechanical engineering.

Dr. Samuel Baker Dr. Samuel Baker obtained Ph.D. from Stanford in Computer Science and Mathematics.After schooling, he joining US Army military intelligence where he worked in Germany and at DARPA (U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and played a role in developing the world's first bionic hand. After 23 years at DARPA, Dr. Baker joined the Center and began research on the replication of a computerized nervous system within the human body. His research is sponsored through a grant from the Maybrook Institute. Dr. Baker has received the Telos Award for Molecular Engineering, the Bionic Freedom Award from the Smithsonian Institution, and the Madoo Prize for Ethics.

PRESS LIBRARY

This section, entitled "Broadcasting the Truth: Bionics in the Media", contains articles from ficticious newspapers that show how bionics could be cause for alarm and a links listing of real-life articles from various news media to show that bionics could also be cause for hope.

Alarm Articles

The first article deals with the dangers of nano-machines:

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The second article deals with the dangers of Bionic Assessment Tests:

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The third article deals with the dangers of hybrid humans:

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The fourth article deals with the dangers of kidnapping by secretive bionic laboratories:

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Hope Articles

• 'Meet the $4 Million Woman,' by Robert Davis. USA Today. — Real-life story, published 9/13/2006, of Claudia Mitchell, the first woman to get a bionic arm. The surgery was performed at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and funded largely by the National Institutes of Health.
• 'Remanufacturing Athletes,' by Ellen Goodman. The Boston Globe. — Real-life story, published 5/24/2007, about South African Oscar Pistorius, who calls himself "the fastest man on no legs."
• 'A Toast to the Bionic Man: Jesse Sullivan Test-Drives a Brain-Powered Artificial Arm' by Nicole Dyer. Popular Science Magazine. — Real-life story, published 9/2005, about Jesse Sullivan from Dayton, TN, who in July 2005 tested a bionic arm from RIC's amputee program.
• 'Rabbits Grow Bionic Knees,' Agençe France-Presse. — Real-life story, published 2/20/2007, about researchers at the University of Virginia who tested a procedure in rabbits that uses a synthetic scaffold seeded with ligament cells to greatly reduce the recovery time of torn-ACL knee surgery.
• 'Japanese Firm Unveils Artificial Hand with 'Air' Muscles,' Agençe France-Presse. — Real-life story, published 6/26/2007, about the development of a bionic hand by a Japanese robot making company that is sensitive enough to grasp a raw egg.

A CLOSER LOOK

This section details the ethical principals by which the Center for Ethical Bionics stands. The guidelines presented include Cooperative Research, The Unveiling of Unscrupulous Science, Free Will, Bionics as Healing, and Peaceful Practices. Each of these guidelines contains a link either to the Bionic Assessment Test or one of the real-life news articles from their press library. This section also includes a subsection entitled "Sarah: A Case Study", which contains the same Sarah Corvus summary information as presented on NBC's Bionic Woman website and which details her as being deceased as of August 12, 2004.

BIONICS 101

This section contains a timeline detailing the history of bionics from 1859 through the present, and a listing of some of the many uses of bionics including To Heal, To Avoid Injury, To Defend, and To Entertain.

"Get Registered" Box

REGISTER

This section contains an online registration form that requires you to submit your name, e-mail, zip, and birthday to register. It also has option fields for submitting your IQ, the number of bionic body parts you possess, whether you support bionic technology, and whether you would like to receive more information from the Center for Ethical Bionics.

A box requesting that you "get registered" to show your support links to this page on all other pages of the site.

Onscreen registration confirmation

After registering, the Center for Ethical Bionics will send you an e-mail confirming your registration. The e-mail, from "TCEB [info@ethicalbionics.org]" with subject "Thank You For Your Interest!", is as follows:

CONTACT INFO

This section gives an address and phone number for the Center for Ethical Bionics Headquarters:

The Center for Ethical Bionics Headquarters

Trivia

• The Watson Foundation is a real-life foundation set up by IBM founder Thomas J. Watson before his death. The Watson Foundation also sponsors the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, a grant that enables graduating seniors of participating colleges to pursue a year of independent study outside the United States.
• Steven Caldwell is also the name of a character on television series Stargate: Atlantis (2004).
• "1537 Cybernetics Way" is not a publicly listed address in San Francisco, CA.
• The MacLauren Foundation is not a known organization in New York.
• The New American Journal of Science is not the name of any known scholarly journal. There is, however, a similarly named journal called just the "New American Journal of Science".
• The IEEE's International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics is a real-life annual conference held by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.
• Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project (HGP) was a 13-year project coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.
• The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics is a real-life institution.
• The Telos Award for Molecular Engineering, the Bionic Freedom Award from the Smithsonian Institution, and the Madoo Prize for Ethics are ficticious awards. However, there is a Smithsonian Award given out annually to individuals who have used technology to produce beneficial changes for society.