Should governments sweeten the vaccine pill with incentives?
Pay people to be vaccinated, says Julian SavulescuGovernments all over the world are desperate to distribute an effective vaccine for Covid-19. In May President Trump...
Did Nobel laureate Robert Edwards get his gong for enabling eugenics?
What are the 'cancel culture' activists?If the “cancel culture” is gunning for eugenicists, there are more than enough candidates. One of the most prominent is...
Covid-19 briefs
The euthanasia pandemic. Super-spreaders. Sperm donors in Israel. Another pandemic: commenting on a right-to-die bill before the parliament of the Australian state of Tasmania, bioethicist...
Things you should think about when you hear ‘vaccine by end of the year’
Will we have one by the US election? By Christmas? On July 27, 2020, the Washington Post reported, Two coronavirus vaccines begin the last phase...
Covid-19: should we deliberately infect volunteers?
A thorny question for researchers and ethicists In a desperate race to develop a Covid-19 vaccine, it is tempting for scientists to compromise quality control...
Coercive population control in China
We're back! For the past few months Covid-19 has been front and centre for most people thinking bioethical thoughts. Important as the pandemic is, I urge you to...
China accused of coercive population control over Uyghur Muslims
US Secretary of State calls it “shocking” and “disturbing” A Uyghur man at a bus in the city of Kashgar, Xinjiang, China A searing report...
‘Cancel culture’ finally comes knocking at Planned Parenthood’s door
Time for a reckoning with her record of supporting eugenics Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was the founder of Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortion services...
Babies for everyone: the new social justice movement
The ability to create a family should not be limited by sexuality, or sex, or wealth, or gender A new slogan has emerged in the...
Dutch concern over bill for ‘completed life’ euthanasia
“The difference between your biological and your biographical life is increasing” A Dutch legislator has submitted a private member’s bill to allow “completed life” euthanasia....
Famous last words – Covid-19 directives
Lethal instructions given to nursing homes Joseph Henry Green, an English surgeon who was Coleridge’s literary executor was checking his own pulse as he lay...
Coronavirus futility in Texas
Who determines ‘quality of life’? A Covid-19 death in Texas offers a dramatic demonstration of the opposite poles in end-of-life care. Michael Hickson was a...