Compulsion is necessary to fight Covid-19: Oxford bioethicist
There are three strong ethical reasons for making all three steps of fighting the virus compulsoryLockdown is not only a policy for containing the spread...
BMA’s Covid-19 guidelines attacked
Will they withstand legal challenges? BMA House in London at twilight Godwin’s law, a well-known internet maxim, hold that "as an online discussion grows longer,...
Should faith-based Canadian nursing homes allow euthanasia in the pandemic?
Supporters are lobbying to force nursing homes to host MAiD doctors to ply their trade Social distancing regulations in Canada are leading to tensions over...
My egg donor went to Harvard. And yours?
Ivy League women receive premium compensation A feature in the Harvard Crimson, the university’s undergraduate newspaper, gives a fascinating anecdotal picture of the sperm and...
Coronavirus quotes, May 9
Dr Anthony Fauci talks about his sleeping habitsDr Anthony Fauci, the scientific face of America’s COVID-19 response, National Geographic A couple of months ago, I...
Is seeking ‘herd immunity’ ethical?
There seems to be an ageist and ableist prejudice implicit in the way people assess the importance of protecting older members of the population from...
Nursing homes in the pandemic
Like rivets popping on a sinking ship, the stresses of the pandemic are showing the weakness in our societies. Suddenly we realise how much we...
How can we speed up vaccine trials?
It’s going to be ethically controversial Thirty-five members of the US Congress have written to health authorities in the Trump Administration asking them to authorise...
Transgender man loses court battle to be ‘father’ on birth certificate
Parliament has not decoupled ‘mother’ from gender Freddy McConnell and child A transgender man working for The Guardian has failed in his attempt to be...
Epidemiology gets personal
Ioannides attacked over sceptical views on lockdowns John Ioannidis The statistician behind sceptical views of national Covid-19 lockdowns, Stanford’s John Ioannidis, has become a target...
We must prepare for artificial wombs, say bioethicists
Is is a ‘moral imperative’? The journal Bioethics has just released a special issue on ectogenesis, or gestating babies in artificial wombs. Although it is...
FM-2030: a transhumanist pioneer
New film about cryogenically frozen Iranian writer FM-2030 is a recent biopic about a pioneering Iranian transhumanist named FM-2030, who has been cryonically suspended since...