Moral fluoridation
Why do I keep screwing things up? This is, IMHO, the first question of moral philosophy. I know what the decent, sensible and right option...
Uh-oh! Infanticide is back: why not, asks Finnish bioethicist
Pro-life arguments do not succeed in eliminating it as a morally permissible option Arguments which pose infanticide as a moral option have put bioethicists in...
Protecting the world through moral bioenhancement
It should be compulsory but secret, argues an American bioethicist The co-existence of large numbers of Very Bad Hombres and readily available means of mass...
A world of Methuselahs?
We should charge ahead with life extension research, says a philosopher Life extension—slowing or halting human aging—is now being taken seriously by many scientists. Although...
The difficult bit is surviving to 100. After that, it’s cruising
Death rates level out after 105 Jeanne Calment, of France, who died at 122 Want to be a supercentenarian? The chances of reaching the ripe...
Brown researcher under fire for questioning transgender narrative
Journal and university distance themselves from controversial article Last week BioEdge reported that PLOS One had published the first serious study of a new condition...
Euthanasia in Belgium: updates on a social experiment
Belgium seems to be treating the victims of child abuse by domestic violence, neglect and sexual abuse by killing them Every two years the Belgium...
Should we be more accepting of suicide in older adults?
Clinicians have different views. Suicide can be impulsive and precipitated by mental illness. But what about when an a healthy, older person makes a calm...
South Korean doctors “protest” new abortion regulations
Doctors in the country are refusing to perform abortions. Almost two thousand obstetrics and gynecology doctors in South Korea have protested tough new Ministry of...