Nursing homes in the pandemic
Like rivets popping on a sinking ship, the stresses of the pandemic are showing the weakness in our societies. Suddenly we realise how much we...
How can we speed up vaccine trials?
It’s going to be ethically controversial Thirty-five members of the US Congress have written to health authorities in the Trump Administration asking them to authorise...
Transgender man loses court battle to be ‘father’ on birth certificate
Parliament has not decoupled ‘mother’ from gender Freddy McConnell and child A transgender man working for The Guardian has failed in his attempt to be...
Epidemiology gets personal
Ioannides attacked over sceptical views on lockdowns John Ioannidis The statistician behind sceptical views of national Covid-19 lockdowns, Stanford’s John Ioannidis, has become a target...
We must prepare for artificial wombs, say bioethicists
Is is a ‘moral imperative’? The journal Bioethics has just released a special issue on ectogenesis, or gestating babies in artificial wombs. Although it is...
FM-2030: a transhumanist pioneer
New film about cryogenically frozen Iranian writer FM-2030 is a recent biopic about a pioneering Iranian transhumanist named FM-2030, who has been cryonically suspended since...
Coronavirus quotes 3
Opening up cosmetic surgery clinicsAgainst pandemic research exceptionalism. Science "All crises present exceptional situations in terms of the challenges they pose to health and welfare....