Singapore must prevent abuses in donation of unused surplus frozen eggs
A recent Channel News Asia article, “Egg donation in Singapore: What couples with complex infertility need to know if they want to have a baby”,...
AI is an existential threat – just not the way you think
The rise of ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence systems has been accompanied by a sharp increase in anxiety about AI. For the past few months,...
Always hungry for more organs, transplant surgeons are exploiting — and illuminating — the different standards for determining death
Are you familiar with something called the “partial resurrection” procedure? That’s how MedPage Today referred to it in a recent article. You might suppose it...
Nature publishes vehement critique of anti-trans politics
The founding co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly has written an opinion piece in the leading journal Nature complaining that anti-transgender policies are not science-based....
Civil disobedience against Dobbs?
On June 24 the US Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade and declared that there was no right to abortion in the American Constitution. Ever...
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...
Shonky stem cell products explode in US
Disturbingly, there are now more than four times as many businesses in the United States offering untested stem cell treatments than there were five years...
‘The Economist’ backs assisted dying
As a reflection of the influence of classical liberal thought upon current affairs, the British “newspaper”, The Economist, has no peer. Its tightly written leaders...
Why corporate sponsorship of egg freezing may worsen workplace discrimination against women — a view from Singapore
In recent years, there has been much news media hype on corporate sponsorship of social egg freezing by tech companies such as Apple, Facebook and...