BioEdge on holidays
There is plenty of variety in this week’s BioEdge: a euthanasia pioneer surveys its progress in the Netherlands; a neuroethicist despairs over ‘fake news’; a...
Update from the UK: Noel Conway can challenge assisted dying ban
Although Parliament is clearly opposed, a way is opening in the courts Noel Conway and supporters A possible tipping point in overturning the United Kingdom’s...
How can neuroethics combat ‘fake news’?
What we need is effective 'nudges to reason', says Neil LevyFake news has a bioethical dimension, argues neuroethicist Neil Levy, in The Hastings Center blog....
Texas gives green-light for experimental stem-cell therapies
The government of Texas will allow clinics across the state to market unapproved stem-cell therapies. The government of Texas will allow clinics across the state...
CIA waterboarding was illegal human experimentation: report
Did psychologists use data from torture to test their hypotheses? Guidelines from the CIA’s Office of Medical Services in December 2004 For years now, the CIA’s...
Should medics embed with Iraqi Army for safety?
Unless doctors are safe, they can't work; to be safe, they have to work for the ArmyMore than 8,000 civilians have been killed in the...
Going commercial with three-parent babies
The man who brought us the first three-parent baby is now going commercial. The same doctor who delivered the first “three parent baby” is now...
Transgender puberty blues
Parents of transgender kids have enrolled them in a dangerous experimentThe January issue of National Geographic magazine featured profiles of gender-bending young people around the...
A Dutch euthanasia pioneer surveys the wreckage and despairs
Safeguards for the mentally ill and the demented are slipping awayIf there is anyone who could be called a patron saint of Dutch euthanasia, it...