Can Planet Earth support 108 billion people?
Maybe not, but an early transhumanist thought it was a good idea Here at BioEdge, we like to keep tabs on proposals for advancing the...
Coronavirus quotes, May 23
Is Anthony Fauci a modern Galileo speaking truth to power? Is Anthony Fauci a modern Galileo speaking truth to power? | Mario Livio, an astrophysicist and...
Conspiracy theories
If I receive an email which begins: "The World Deserves the Truth…. Please brace yourself for the following information I’m about to share with you",...
How should we tackle conspiracy theories about Covid-19?
Google and Facebook have censored a conspiracy video Mikki Willis interviewing Dr. Judy Mikovits in Plandemic Back in 1890, the European edition of the New...
Ethical questions surround Parkinson’s stem cell experimental treatment
It seems to work, but bioethicists have questions George Lopez, the Parkinson's patient who gave $2 million for Parkinson's / YOUTUBE Reprogramming a patient's own skin...
Vatican strips Belgian group of ‘Catholic’ label over euthanasia
Hospitals run by the Brothers of Charity are no longer Catholic The Vatican has put its foot down on a Belgian Catholic group over euthanasia...
Surrogacy nightmare in Ukraine
Babies on one side of the border; parents on the other Like rivets popping on the hull of the sinking Titanic, the stresses of the...
‘Wrongful life’ tested in German courts
German Federal Court refuses to endorse the idea The Bundesgerichtshof (German Federal Court of Justice) The legal concept of “wrongful life” is extremely controversial and has...
Coronavirus quotes. May 16
Remembering the Ebola epidemic Dr Susan L. Murray. NEJM, on working in the middle of an Ebola epidemic in 2014 Most health care workers I...
Covid-19 issues
Now that most countries are thinking of slowing lifting lockdowns and relaxing social distancing restrictions, the issue of coronavirus 'passports' is emerging as the next...
Should governments issue coronavirus ‘passports’?
A controversial idea amongst the experts Ante-bellum New Orleans had to deal with a disease far more dangerous than Covid-19 – yellow fever. There was...
Twitter storm over Anderson Cooper’s surrogate baby
Famous novelist takes dim view of erasure of women from baby's lifeThis is not exactly an only-in-America story. It’s more an “only amongst the rich,...