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The goal of this site is to provide all the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings. Site provides a Quick Click to Search Engines, annotated Research, Writing, and Style Guides (MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, CGOS, CBE, Harvard), and Worlds of Knowledge housing some of the best education Web sites in a Virtual Library arranged by the Dewey Decimal Classification System.

Embryonic stem cell research is the most controversial stem cell research since it involves destroying a human embryo. Embryonic stem cells are more beneficial than adult stem cells because they grow quicker and target a wider category of diseases. Creating and then destroying embryos is an non ethical treatment of the value of life.

Nice tips for students.

This site is great for current research and published articles pertaining to many health conditions.

This website offers great research papers on studies done in the biotechnology and medical fields. This particular link focuses on the possible cure for the major cause of congenital deafness

12 videos on doing research made in 2008 by a librarian at Pima CC in Tucson.

Stem cell research is a touchy subject with a lot of people, mostly because it's about ethics. A lot of where stem cells come from is embryos, but there are a lot of other places they come from - such as Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells which are derived from an adult somatic cell.

This article is positive towards people choosing a career that they enjoy.  It gives links to research that us included in the article which give the article much credibility. All in all the article tells readers to do what they enjoy even of it is for a few minutes a day.

This article discusses the ethics of stem cell research and the effectiveness of "Induced pluripotent stem cells"-reprogramming of adult human cells-vs. the use of embryonic stem cells. The article also discusses the ethics of destroying human embryos. 

"With so many resources online, many students are using it as a valuable resource for academic research these days. And it's mostly valid-there are plenty of scholarly and legitimate websites out there that can provide valuable information. But you will have to cite your sources correctly if you want to use information you found online in your papers."

This site briefly talks about the benefits of stem cell use and research. Than puts up a short legal argument in favor of stem cells.

Dr. Chopra writes this article for the AMA's Journal of Ethics as a practicing CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Practitioner. Dr. Chopra relates errors in the research in Allopathic Medicine as well as the declining effect of medicine. He relates to Holistic and Allopathic Medicine as a divorces couple who are beginning to reconcile and to establish a new the relationship.

This article is from the viewpoint of a mother who chose not to vaccinate her children. She did much research and came to the conclusion that vaccines were unneccessary to ensure the health of her children. She also touches on informing the public of state laws that protect parents from having to vaccinate.

Article seems to be written by a college student who is writing an argumentative paper on legalizing prostitution.  Good article to use for ideas but I would need to do my own research on statistics due to age of article.

This article talks about the good things as well of bad things about getting a child vaccinated. Some people believe they should let their childrens own immune system take care of whatever it needs to take care of on its own rather than have help with a vaccine. This is because some vaccinations can have severe side effects

I came across this institute in a previous article on the topic of same-sex adoption. It looks like they focus on education, research and advocacy.

Although this paper was written back in 1996, I find its vision uncanny. To note that this paper was not written in the United States nor Europe or Canada, but in South Africa. J.J. Britz brings together the concept of privacy as it relates to ethics, confidentiality, socio-economical effects, and autonomy. Well written and researched.

Paper written by a research assistant at the Makkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Posted just under two months after 9/11. This issue discussed is what freedoms and how much should be surrendered for safety. Past issue of freedoms being taken in times of wars and other emergency situation. Thought provoking and maybe even a little eye opening.

This site tells how companies are researching possible employees by there social media reputation.

Since I'm not the most social person by nature, I'm not very active with social media. I don't have a Facebook, or Twitter, or whatever. So, if anyone tries to Google me, there's not much that comes up. Hmm, I wonder if that could backfire if a potential employer can't find any information on me by using social media.

I don't believe that employers should be concerned of a potential or current employees social media sites.

"Law enforcement reminders of the consequences of criminal behavior are supposed to curb illegal activity, but some of these intimidation strategies may be backfiring, especially among youth. In the latest study of stop and frisk policies, in which law enforcement randomly stop individuals for questioning even if they aren't engaged in criminal activity, researchers found that those who were stopped were more likely than those who were not to engage in delinquent behavior later on."

OER textbook online.