Crisis in research: if Harvard isn’t safe from fraud, who is?
The president of Harvard, Claudine Gay, was forced to step down last month because of allegations of plagiarism. Not long after, Harvard’s DEI czar, Sherri...
Israel – Hamas war: medics are dying in Gaza
In the latest news from the war in Palestine, a dozen Israeli commandos entered the Ibn Sina hospital in the West Bank town of Jenin...
What is the real story of rape pregnancies after Dobbs?
Sometimes it seems that the precision of statistics is inversely proportion to their reliability. A widely reported research letter to the journal JAMA Internal Medicine...
Pick the odd one out: measles, mumps, Covid, rubella, pregnancy, malaria
Is pregnancy a disease? With some bioethicists arguing that the continuance of the human species is not worth the candle or that the foetus is...
Canada delays euthanasia for people with mental illness
For a second year in a row, Canada’s federal government is going to delay opening euthanasia to people whose only condition is a mental illness....
British MP lashes out at surrogacy
A Conservative MP in the British Parliament has called for a ban on surrogacy. Miriam Cates, 41, told “The House”, a magazine for MPs, that...
Euthanasia activist says that today’s execution in Alabama is bad publicity for his movement
This afternoon, Alabama time, Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, will be executed in Holman Correctional Facility. This will be the second time that Smith has prepared...
Should doctors and nurses be disciplined for reporting illegal abortions?
Between 1861 and November 2022, only three British women had ever been convicted of having an illegal abortion. But, writes Zoe Williams in The Guardian,...
200 siblings and counting. And all very sick.
How would it feel to discover that your father is a sperm donor, that you have at least 200 half-siblings, and that all of them...
Redefining the family in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed that “Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion,...
China’s population continues to decline
China’s population has declined for the second year in a row, despite desperate government incentives to women to have children. In 2023, the number of...
Pope Francis continues to wage war on surrogacy
Fireworks erupted last week after Pope Francis demanded a global ban on the practice of surrogacy. He described it as “deplorable” and “a grave violation...