Got the blues? Insert a brain pleasure chip
Only a decade awayIn addition to enhanced cognition, enhanced pleasure is also on the horizon, according to an article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. A research...
Nature backs mind-enhancing drugs
Give students drugs if they can’t afford them. Last year an informal survey in Nature found that 20% of scientists used mind-enhancing drugs to cope...
Amputate healthy legs if patients don’t want them, says psychiatrist
Inspired by analysis of Julian Savulescu A Sydney University psychiatrist has argued that surgeons should be allowed to amputate healthy legs if a patient is...
Poland to chemically castrate paedophiles
Prime Minister’s popularity jumps after proposal Enraged by a notorious case of incest, the Polish prime minister has called for compulsory chemical castration of sex...
Mandatory moral enhancement may be needed to avert Apocalypse
Proposal from Julian Savulescu In the last few years, the apocalypse has fascinated Hollywood: films like The War of the Worlds, I am Legend and...
Chemical castration made option for paedophiles
Canadian project could be model for UK Much of bioethical discourse is concerned with enhancement. How about dis-enhancement, or shedding, rather than adding to physical...
Will males become extinct?
Brazilian scientists produce artificial sperm Somewhat tongue in cheek, an Australian bioethicist has suggested that men, like pandas and polar bears, are the new endangered...
Legless South African sprinter eligible for Olympics
Prosthetic legs deemed not an unfair advantage A South African double amputee has been cleared to run in the Beijing Olympics with prosthetic legs which...
Are scientists drugs cheats?
One in five use 'cognitive enhancement' Should scientists who use performance-enhancing drugs return their Nobel Prizes? If the figures in a poll conducted by Nature...
Nature joins ‘pregnant man’ debate
What’s natural, anyway? Every editor loves stories which spark an Oooh! Wow! or Yuck! from readers – even BioEdge. A few weeks ago we dug...
NORTH KOREAN ENFORCING EUGENICS
In the wake of North Korea's claim to have exploded a nuclear bomb, articles featuring criticism of the cruel and secretive government have again flooded...
Before the Holocaust, some Israeli doctors supported eugenics
Research by an Israeli PhD student has exposed the eugenic plans of a number of Jewish doctors and Zionist thinkers before World War II. According...
