Lessons from Peru
I just stumbled across a documentary which was recently released in Peru, Cicatrices del engaño (Scars of Deception), about the 300,000 women and 22,000 men...
UK may offer free weight-loss surgery to fight epidemic
A quarter of Britons are obese, fuelling a rise in cases of type 2 diabetes, as well as heart disease, fatty liver disease and cancer....
Remembering the dark story of Peru’s population control campaign
Showcasing an interactive documentary about women and men who were sterilised in Peru in the mid-1990s by population controllers. The Quipu Project is an interactive...
Should severely disabled infants be euthanased?
Two of the leading voices in bioethics go head-to-head. Two of the leading voices in bioethics have a fascinating head-to-head confrontation on the euthanasia of...
Raise your hand if you are a courageous, individualistic thinker
The ratio of liberals to conservatives in social psychology is absurdly lopsided, says a leading academic. A couple of years ago, one of the stories...
Looking for long-lost uncles
The other day I was speaking with a friend in Tasmania who has been researching the fate of a great-uncle who disappeared in the...
Super surgeon who uses stem cells accused of unethical conduct
Shades of Hwang Woo-suk. Has the stem cell jinx struck again? A world-famous Italian researcher has been accused of failing to obtain ethical approval for...
Russian politicians propose universal DNA profiling
Politicians from a minor nationalist party want the government to file fingerprints and DNA profiles of every Russian citizen. Politicians from a minor nationalist party,...
Have Chinese scientists discovered a “singleton gene”?
More evidence that articles about genetic determinism are positively correlated with provocative headlines. More evidence that articles about genetic determinism are positively correlated with provocative...
Dutch doctors want to harvest organs of euthanased patients
The number of organs available for transplant in the Netherlands could double. Doctors in the Netherlands are developing a protocol which will increase the number...
Belgian euthanasia group tours Auschwitz
About 70 people accompanied Belgian euthanasia doctor Wim Distelmans on his tour of Auschwitz, the Nazi extermination camp in German-occupied Poland, last month. The German...
Should we pay commercial providers to assist suicides?
Assisted suicide is an idea which keeps evolving. Assisted suicide is an idea which keeps evolving. Who could have foreseen the development of groups of...