Fudged research results erode people’s trust in experts
Only a modest proportion of all flawed publications are identified and retracted.Reports of research misconduct have been prominent recently and probably reflect wider problems of...
Spanish and US scientists go to China to create human-monkey chimeras
What about the ethics? LATE FLASH! In a stunning example of evading ethical controversy by exporting it, Spanish and American researchers have created monkey-human chimeras...
Japanese scientist to use human-animal hybrids to create organs
He is using a new technique of targeted organ generation A Japanese stem cell scientist has obtained permission to create human-animal chimeras and transplant them...
The bizarre transhumanist fantasies of Jeffrey Epstein
Not just cryonics, but eugenicsWhat’s the thread connecting cryonics, sperm banks, eugenics and transhumanism? The disgraced New York financier Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein is currently in...
New South Wales debates decriminalisation of abortion
A new bill would allow abortion for any reason up to 22 weeks. Politicians in the New South Wales State Parliament are about to commence debate...
Facebook is developing wearable brain-to-computer glasses
Huge potential for a new technology An early research kit of a wearable brain-computer interface device, built by Facebook Reality Labs. Facebook is funding research...
Our expanding circle should include chimpanzees
Supporters issue a chimp manifestoJuly 14 was World Chimpanzee Day / photo Nick Riley As foundational principles of bioethics go, it’s pretty hard to go...
Nitschke keeps on pressing those buttons
Now it is live-streamed suicides Philip Nitschke in front of a marquee advertising "A Time to Die", a documentary about his work The ever-controversial Australian...