Predicting an embryo’s future with ‘polygenic risk scores’ is ‘unproven’ and ‘unethical’, say experts
“Advanced embryo genetic testing. Choose your healthiest embryo.” This is the slogan of Genomic Prediction, an American company which is selling polygenic risk scores (PRSs)...
‘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...
China cracks down on cosmetic surgery to stop ‘appearance anxiety’
The Chinese government has been cracking down on conspicuous consumption and tall poppies in recent months. Billionaires have disappeared; movie stars have become unpersons; at...
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...
Did human genome editor He Jiankui deserve to be disgraced?
Not necessarily, say bioethicists He Jiankui in his salad days When Chinese researcher He Jiankui announced in late 2018 that he had helped to create...
A cyborg future may come earlier than we think
Along with serious ethical issues Surpassing the biological limitations of the brain and using the mind to control electronic devices may sound like the distant...
WHO gives in-principle endorsement to human genome editing
However, it needs strict regulation Two reports released this week by the World Health Organization (WHO) offer a pathway to establish human genome editing as...
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,...
Data from popular Down syndrome test could be used by China’s military
US government regards it as a security risk NIFTY, a popular pre-natal test for Down syndrome and other foetal abnormalities, is generating data for Chinese...
Eunuchs and bioethics: a malicious act with intent in Brisbane
A DIY castration service True Crime and Bioethics Series. Not all stories in the “true crime” genre are about murder. This one is about castration....
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...