Immunity passports: a privacy nightmare or the key to ending lockdowns?
The WHO opposes the idea The ethics of immunity passports is certain to become a focus for national debates as coronavirus lockdowns ease up. Estonia...
‘Don’t call them heroes’
The label could hurt healthcare workers Healthcare workers in the coronavirus epidemic are everywhere being praised as heroes (except Russia – see the next story)....
Nobody calls them ‘heroes’ in Russia
Healthcare workers viewed as whining money-grubbers Over the past few weeks TV news has often featured public appreciation of healthcare workers, whether it was Prime...
Ukraine surrogacy agency faces criticism
Catholic prelates call it ‘contempt for human dignity’ The surrogacy agency which released a video showing dozens of babies stranded in a hotel in Ukraine...
‘We’re all vitalists now’, Oxford ethicist tells utilitarians
Utilitarians have been overlooked In a characteristically provocative article, Oxford medical ethical ethicist Charles Foster observes that, in the current emergency, policy-makers the world over...
Can Planet Earth support 108 billion people?
Maybe not, but an early transhumanist thought it was a good idea Here at BioEdge, we like to keep tabs on proposals for advancing the...
Coronavirus quotes, May 23
Is Anthony Fauci a modern Galileo speaking truth to power? Is Anthony Fauci a modern Galileo speaking truth to power? | Mario Livio, an astrophysicist and...