Eugenics president expunged from USC campus
Name and bust of Rufus Von KleinSmid removed The past week has seen statues and monuments whose subjects were linked to racism defaced or destroyed...
Ukraine begins to open borders for babies of surrogate mothers
There could be as many as 1000 babies The Biotexcom nursery / Reuters Foreign couples who waited two months because of Covid-19 border closures are...
Big Tech hits pause button on facial recognition technology
But is it just a public relations stunt? Microsoft, IBM, Google and Amazon have all hit a “stop” or “pause” button on their facial recognition...
An unexpected medicine for the pandemic: humility
Why are we all so polarised? street art in Warsaw / Adam Nieścioruk on Unsplash 2020 has been a year of surprises. No one predicted...
Queen’s birthday
After the brutal killing of black man George Floyd in Minneapolis by police on May 25, demonstrations with tens of thousands of people have erupted...
The twin pandemics: Covid-19 and racism
Is protesting racism a legitimate excuse for ignoring lockdowns? After the brutal killing of black man George Floyd in Minneapolis by police on May 25,...
Leading journals forced to retract hydroxychloroquine studies
The retractions have caused shockwaves in the global scientific community. Two of the world’s leading medical journals have been forced to retract studies on the...
Trump pulls the plug on the WHO
Questions remain about whether this is possible this year The United States will withdraw from the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump has declared after months...
Francis Collins awarded Templeton Prize for reconciling faith and reason
Belief in God can be an entirely rational choice, he contendsGeneticist and physician Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, who led the...
Does ‘believe scientists!’ include ‘believe the epidemiologists!’?
How do we choose between lives and livelihoods? Photo by Vlad Tchompalov on Unsplash “Believe the science!” has been the desperate rallying cry of people opposing the “denialism”...
The world market for sex reassignment surgery is growing
At least US$1.5 billion by 2026The global market for sex reassignment surgery will be worth at least US$1.5 billion by 2026, according to MarketWatch. With...
Inquiry needed into link between Asperger’s and gender dysphoria: Australian expert
Many transgender and non-binary individuals appear to be autisticIncreasingly, anecdotal reports and research are linking gender dysphoria with Asperger’s syndrome. The Australian recently featured a...