Now for the lighter side of bioethics:I spent much of the day working on optimizing the Women’s Bioethics Project blog and website to increase our readership. (Yes, the glamorous life of running a public policy think-tank.) My husband, who is a software engineer, suggested that rather than the tedious process of linking to appropriate websites or writing content that will be picked up by widely read newsgroups, I should just add “penis” to my keyword list and be done with it.
Rather than indulge in such a gratuitous attempt to increase our Google ranking, I did some crack research so I could offer two recent postings from the prestigious American Journal of Bioethics and the venerable Hastings Center on the topic:
Penis Transplants in China
http://blog.bioethics.net/2006/09/insert-penis-here.html
Proof that I Like Penises
http://www.bioethicsforum.org/20060310adreger.asp
I think that about covers (or uncovers it.) Back to neuro-ethics.
2 comments:
Ha! Who knew bioethics had a salacious side?
FYI:
Here's my blog entry from last December, where I consider whether it's OK to benefit from "unintended" consequences of things like including naughty words (or even anatomical ones, I guess!) in a blog entry.
http://www.businessethics.ca/blog/2005/12/sony-apple-profit-from-porn-can-i.html
Oh, and I'm told Google works hard to prevent people from successfully boosting website traffic JUST by adding sex-related words...
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