Dutch doctor in hot water for refusing to approve euthanasia
Patient subsequently hanged herself. Milou de Moor A Dutch general practitioner is being sued for not approving the euthanasia of a 19-year-old woman. The...
UK researcher applies for embryo gene-editing license
Just months after CRISPR was used to modify embryos in China, a British scientists wants to forge ahead. Just months after the release of a...
Does it matter if experiments cannot be replicated?
Isn't that the way science works? Many issues in bioethics are influenced by “data” supplied by psychology: how IVF children socialise; whether patients who request...
Australians travelling to US for sex-selective IVF
Scores of couples take advantage of liberal legislation. Scores of Australian couples are visiting the US to avail themselves of sex-selective IVF, according to infertility...
Popping the bubble of objectivity
Several leading politically progressive social psychologists want more conservatives in their field Several leading liberal/progressive social psychologists have launched an initiative called Heterodox Academy to...
An uphill battle for transhumanists
“They think we’re fantasists when in fact we’re talking about a future just over the horizon.” Notwithstanding a wide range of approaches, the ultimate goal...
New research ethics guidelines planned for US
HHS has proposed an overhaul of existing human research ethics guidelines The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed an overhaul of...
New criteria for Australian heart transplants could be illegal
Parliaments need to alter the definition of death, say doctors Sydney Morning Herald / Eamon Gallagher Two Australian researchers say a new form of...