‘Don’t call them heroes’
The label could hurt healthcare workers Healthcare workers in the coronavirus epidemic are everywhere being praised as heroes (except Russia – see the next story)....
Nobody calls them ‘heroes’ in Russia
Healthcare workers viewed as whining money-grubbers Over the past few weeks TV news has often featured public appreciation of healthcare workers, whether it was Prime...
Ukraine surrogacy agency faces criticism
Catholic prelates call it ‘contempt for human dignity’ The surrogacy agency which released a video showing dozens of babies stranded in a hotel in Ukraine...
‘We’re all vitalists now’, Oxford ethicist tells utilitarians
Utilitarians have been overlooked In a characteristically provocative article, Oxford medical ethical ethicist Charles Foster observes that, in the current emergency, policy-makers the world over...
Can Planet Earth support 108 billion people?
Maybe not, but an early transhumanist thought it was a good idea Here at BioEdge, we like to keep tabs on proposals for advancing the...
Coronavirus quotes, May 23
Is Anthony Fauci a modern Galileo speaking truth to power? Is Anthony Fauci a modern Galileo speaking truth to power? | Mario Livio, an astrophysicist and...
Conspiracy theories
If I receive an email which begins: "The World Deserves the Truth…. Please brace yourself for the following information I’m about to share with you",...
How should we tackle conspiracy theories about Covid-19?
Google and Facebook have censored a conspiracy video Mikki Willis interviewing Dr. Judy Mikovits in Plandemic Back in 1890, the European edition of the New...
Should COVID-19 vaccination be compulsory?
A group Oxford ethicists say "yes". As researchers around the world race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, bioethicists are once again debating the ethics of...
Ethical questions surround Parkinson’s stem cell experimental treatment
It seems to work, but bioethicists have questions George Lopez, the Parkinson's patient who gave $2 million for Parkinson's / YOUTUBE Reprogramming a patient's own skin...
Vatican strips Belgian group of ‘Catholic’ label over euthanasia
Hospitals run by the Brothers of Charity are no longer Catholic The Vatican has put its foot down on a Belgian Catholic group over euthanasia...
Surrogacy nightmare in Ukraine
Babies on one side of the border; parents on the other Like rivets popping on the hull of the sinking Titanic, the stresses of the...