Politicians denounce three-parent embryos as “eugenic”
Opponents of the UK’s plans to legalise “three-parent embryos” have not given up. Opponents of the UK’s plans to legalise “three-parent embryos” have not given...
The eugenicist sympathies of IVF pioneer Robert Edwards
The 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine for British IVF pioneer Robert Edwards was one of the Nobel committee’s most popular decisions. Right up until he...
Savulescu warns that “love-diminishing” drugs could be used for gay “conversion therapy”
Drugs could be used to reverse homosexual inclinations. In recent years Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu has written extensively about the neuro-enhancement of human relationships. In...
21st-century eugenics
Hi there, The Google of genetics, a California company called 23andme (after our 23 chromosomes) has denied that it is in the business of providing...
Google searches for life extension
If you have US$50 billion or so in cash lying around, you can afford to spend some of it on out-there projects. Which is what...
UK bioethicists promoting a second wave of eugenics
Eugenics is alive and well in British academia. Eugenics is alive and well in British academia. Stephen Wilkinson, of Lancaster University, recently published a long...
“Louise is not afraid of inflicting pain on troubled families”
The head of the British government's troubled families programme says that some mothers of large, expensive and troubled children should be forcefully counselled about using...
Eugenics revived
Hi there, If you search in Google News for “eugenics”, the principal story comes from North Carolina. Its legislature recently voted to distribute US$10 million...
Feminist launches attack on the Pill
Sweetening the Pill: or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control, by English feminist writer Holly Grigg-Spall, is a passionate attack on hormonal contraceptives...
Bradley Manning transitions from whistleblowing traitor to transgender heroine
Private Bradley Manning, the imprisoned Wikileaker, wants to become a woman. Private Bradley Manning, the Army soldier sentenced this week to 35 years in prison...
“We have a moral imperative to research moral enhancement”: Savulescu
At a TEDx conference in Barcelona last month, Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu shared his views on using medicine and technology for “moral enhancement”. At a...
Death’s too good for these crims, says Oxford bioethicist.
Some sentences could be worse than death. An appalling case of child murder by neglect and cruelty in the UK recently resulted in 30-year jail...