Nursing homes in the pandemic
Like rivets popping on a sinking ship, the stresses of the pandemic are showing the weakness in our societies. Suddenly we realise how much we...
How can we speed up vaccine trials?
It’s going to be ethically controversial Thirty-five members of the US Congress have written to health authorities in the Trump Administration asking them to authorise...
Transgender man loses court battle to be ‘father’ on birth certificate
Parliament has not decoupled ‘mother’ from gender Freddy McConnell and child A transgender man working for The Guardian has failed in his attempt to be...
Epidemiology gets personal
Ioannides attacked over sceptical views on lockdowns John Ioannidis The statistician behind sceptical views of national Covid-19 lockdowns, Stanford’s John Ioannidis, has become a target...
We must prepare for artificial wombs, say bioethicists
Is is a ‘moral imperative’? The journal Bioethics has just released a special issue on ectogenesis, or gestating babies in artificial wombs. Although it is...
FM-2030: a transhumanist pioneer
New film about cryogenically frozen Iranian writer FM-2030 is a recent biopic about a pioneering Iranian transhumanist named FM-2030, who has been cryonically suspended since...
Coronavirus quotes 3
Opening up cosmetic surgery clinicsAgainst pandemic research exceptionalism. Science "All crises present exceptional situations in terms of the challenges they pose to health and welfare....
Wild theories
I'm not sure who was the first to say, "“Never let a good crisis go to waste". But lots of people are taking this wisdom to heart in the Covid-19...
The elderly can still be heroes in the Covid-19 crisis
Two bioethicists argue that victims can offer their bodies for experimentation and organ donation Dirk Bogarde as Sydney Carton goes to the guillotine in A...
We have to know when to let go, says bioethicist
A lifespan approach to bioethics Many observers of the unfolding coronavirus crisis have lamented the apparent neglect of the elderly and the disproportionate number of...
Is a Texas nursing home doctor abusing human rights?
He has been giving the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to coronavirus-positive elderly patients The medical director of a nursing home in Texas has come under fire...
Should governments force citizens to use tracking apps?
It might save lives but it tests the bounds of privacy These are weird times, so you’re no longer surprised to hear politicians say things...