Journal editor comes under fire
'Unfriends' Conservative voters on Facebook. The Journal of Medical Ethics received some unwelcome publicity last week when one of its nine associate editors announced that she...
Examining the last taboo
A Norwegian ethicist defends certain aspects of paedophilia, so long as it is not harmful. It’s hard to think of an activity with stronger moral...
Drug giant appoints bioethicist to head compassionate use panel
Johnson & Johnson has appointed America’s best-known bioethicist, Art Caplan. In an effort to cope with controversies over “compassionate use” of experimental drugs, Johnson &...
British woman seeks to bear dead daughter’s child
Frozen eggs to be fertilised with donor sperm. In what could be a world first, a 59-year-old British woman is seeking to fertilize the frozen...
Transhumanist launches campaign for US President
Zoltan Istvan is running for President in America’s 2016 elections. Transhumanism is a broad church embracing many different approaches. But it has enough followers to...
“Professor, do your homework,” disability group tells Singer
Bioethicist slated by US National Council on Disability. Utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer has often come under fire for his views on infanticide from pro-life groups....
Outsourcing embryos in India
A recent Vice documentary explores the well-trodden path to shady surrogacy practices in India. A recent Vice documentary for HBO, Outsourcing Embryos, explored the well-trodden path...
Put us out of our misery, ask Indian farmers
In 2007 an infection swept through the pomegranate trees of Hyderabad-Karnataka in India. Pomegrates are a profitable export crop into countries like Germany, Switzerland, France, and Canada....
Scotland’s assisted suicide bill whacked by committee
Margo MacDonald's legacy contains "significant flaws". A bill which would legalise assisted suicide in Scotland contains “significant flaws”, according to a report by a parliamentary...
Life imitates art in Hollywood once again
The saga of Sophia Vergara and Nick Loeb. The technical term for Hollywood’s latest bioethical brain-teaser is anti-mimesis, the theory that life imitates art. Sophia...
Germline tinkering sparks more controversy
Francis S. Collins and Julian Savulescu take diametrically opposed sides. Chinese attempts to modify the human genome using new gene editing technology are still stirring...