Journalistic ethics at work
A team of a team of undercover freelance investigative journalists called the Center for Medical Progress has been making life miserable for abortion provider Planned...
Psychologists shaken by report on torture program
The leadership of the American Psychological Association implicated. The use of torture to extract information from terrorist detainees under the Bush Administration continues to reverberate....
You’ve heard of half-wits. How about 5%-wits?
How can people function normally with only a fraction of a normal brain? The comfortable certainty of having at least half a brain is unshakable....
Planned Parenthood under fire over use of aborted tissue
Undercover journalists make sensational allegations The use of foetal tissue in biomedical research has become an incendiary political issue in the United States. Four videos...
At last, someone with a plan for the silver tsunami
Outspoken media personality Katie Hopkins wants euthanasia vans for Britons. A TV show called “If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World” debuts next week in Britain....
A wild swing at bioethics
Steven Pinker delivers a stiff uppercut to the whole field. A luminary at Harvard who is one of America’s leading intellectuals has aimed a haymaker at...
Hers to choose
A woman who chose both IVF and abortion speaks out. The availability of both IVF and abortion creates some counterintuitive situations. The latest issue of...
‘Foreigners do not understand us’
The boundaries of euthanasia in Belgium and the Netherlands keep expanding, says a world expert. Raphael Cohen-Almagor, of the University of Hull in the United...
Supreme Court fall-out
The Supreme Court has handed down a landmark ruling on same-sex marriage which effectively legalises it throughout the United States. President Obama welcomed the decision....
Face recognition technology may threaten privacy
Should marketing agencies be able to identify you as you walk down the street.? Imagine that you are a pastor of an American megachurch. You...
Dutch paediatricians back euthanasia for under-12s
Association not worried about safeguards. Dutch paediatricians are backing euthanasia for children aged from 1 to 12. In a position paper released on June 19,...
The Economist to campaign on Belgian model of euthanasia
A new editor takes a familiar line. Editor-in-chief of The Economist, Zanny Minton-Beddoes The world’s most influential news magazine, The Economist, has a...