Nature’s mea culpa for promoting eugenics
Earlier this year, the world’s leading science journal, Nature, and its companion journals embarked upon a campaign to purge from their pages discrimination and inequality...
Can we please define ‘eugenics’ before criticizing it?
Robert Reich, a leading economist and secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, has denounced the “eugenic” policies of Viktor Orban. The Hungarian Prime Minister...
Another step forward towards artificial gametes
Have scientists moved a step closer to in vitro gametogenesis – creating human embryos from artificial eggs and sperm? In a paper published earlier this...
Is Singapore ready for mass production of eggs and sperm from stem cells?
Scientists have generated artificial lab-grown sperm and eggs from rats and mice, which have gone on to successfully produced healthy offspring, a procedure known as...
Is euthanasia becoming a runaway train in Canada?
Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) is a syndrome attributed to patients who complain of headaches, rashes, depression and dizziness and attribute them to chemicals in the...
Transhumanism under the microscope
Transhumanism is – to put it mildly – controversial. But its futuristic ideas are compelling and intriguing. Some of its advocates (like Elon Musk) are...
‘Science’ apologises for complicity in spreading the philosophy of eugenics
The logo of the Second International Eugenics Congress This year marks the centenary of the Second International Eugenics Congress in 1921, an event supported by the...
Should children have the right to die in Canada?
Tragic case of 4-year-old shows the pain that some parents suffer Canada’s euthanasia legislation is under constant pressure to expand the grounds for eligibility for...
Right-to-die in Scotland: People in glass houses, etc
The founder of Dignity in Dying was an unabashed eugenicist The argumentum ad hominem is widely regarded as the worst of arguments, but, you know,...
Leading US psychiatrist describes transgender medicine as “folly”
'I’m absolutely convinced that this is folly and it’s going to collapse,' says Paul McHugh.One of the most prominent critics of the tenets of transgender...
‘Uterine morality’
I had never heard of the term "uterine morality" until this week. At first I thought that it must mean a more traditional approach to...
‘Uterine morality’: feminist eugenics in China
Is it a crime to have ugly children? Like the coronavirus, eugenics keeps morphing and mutating to adapt to new environments. In China, for instance,...