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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Coronavirus quotes 3
Opening up cosmetic surgery clinicsAgainst pandemic research exceptionalism. Science "All crises present exceptional situations in terms of the challenges they pose to health and welfare....
Abortion battles continue in the fog of war on Covid-19
While the public is distracted With hostile lobby groups immobilized by quarantines and the mainstream media obsessed with the coronavirus pandemic, it’s a good time...
New Zealand legalises abortion
Permits abortion of the disabled and abortion for sex selection On Wednesday night, while 90% percent of the world was coming to grips with the...
Scientists lament Trump Administration’s ban on foetal tissue research
Others say that numerous non-controversial alternatives exist The outcome of this year’s American elections is of great interest to medical scientists who work with foetal...
Belgium could criminalise abortion protest
New bill seems difficult to reconcile with freedom of expression or conscience Belgian Federal Parliament / Palais de la Nation Once again, the Belgian parliament is...