Media approaches peak cognitive dissonance over the ‘T’ in LGBT Pride month
The media is approaching peak cognitive dissonance in Pride Month over the issue of transgenderism. On the one hand, Glamour UK used a startling image...
The Economist: ‘Global fertility has collapsed’
The Economist, an oracle for politicians, journalists, and economists the world over, has turned bearish on the future of humanity. The leader accompanying its latest...
Croatia plans to import sperm. No one back home wants to donate
Sperm and egg donation has been legal in Croatia since 2012. But no one has donated. The problem seems to be that the law does...
Australian woman freed after 20 years after new genetic evidence raised ‘reasonable doubt’
An Australian woman who spent 20 years in jail for murdering her four infant children has been pardoned on the basis of new genetic evidence....
Is surrogacy a way of combatting ‘compulsory familialism’?
For people on either side of the debate, surrogacy can seem like a black-and-white issue. Opponents stress human dignity; supporters stress autonomy. For both the...
The FDA finally approved Elon Musk’s Neuralink chip for human trials. Have all the concerns been addressed?
Since its founding in 2016, Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company Neuralink has had the ambitious mission to build a next-generation brain implant with at least 100...
You shed DNA everywhere you go – trace samples in the water, sand and air are enough to identify who you are, raising ethical questions about privacy
Human DNA can be sequenced from small amounts of water, sand and air in the environment to potentially extract identifiable information like genetic lineage, gender,...