Two perspectives on female genital cutting
Mutilation and cosmetic surgery The World Health Organization reports that more than 200 million girls and women currently have been subjected to female genital mutilation/cutting...
Harvard’s sugar daddy
Scientists collaborated with the sugar industry in the 1960s to dismiss health concerns. Harvard nutrition researchers in the 1960s were suborned by the sugar industry...
Let’s fight climate change with population engineering
Bioethicists table strategies for reducing greenhouse gases Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich popularized the formula I=PxAxT in his race to defuse the Population Bomb. It meant...
Trans-Tasman debate over euthanasia continues
Victoria has moved one step closer to legalising euthanasia, while New Zealand doctors remain hesitant. Victorian health minister Jill Hennessy Victoria has moved...
The eternal return of the infanticide debate
Bioethicists have not given up on the idea of infanticide. Bioethicists have not given up on the idea of infanticide, with a Scandinavian ethicist publishing...
The ugly legacy of Nazi doctors resurfaces
A research institute in Germany has been forced to dispose of 100 brain specimens after discovering they were sourced from illicit medical research. A prestigious...
Women freeze eggs for stable families, not successful careers
A new study of egg freezing in the UK suggests that most women are motivated by an anxiety to find the right partner. A new...
Everything you wanted to know about genetic engineering in one chirpy video
It may be too optimistic about the future, but it is a good overview of a complex field. This chirpy video about genetic engineering explains...
Excel glitch
I’m not very clever with spreadsheets. Never have been. Never will. My consolation, though, is that some people who use them 24/7 may not be...
Biological ties are unimportant, says bioethicist
We must not give in to patriarchal thinking.... The search for one’s “real” father or “real” mother is a motif not only of yesteryear’s literature...
Has Obamacare created a “transgender mandate”?
Activists claim that doctors will be forced to perform gender transition procedures. On yet another front, Obamacare has been challenged on ethical grounds, this time...
Swedish medicine in turmoil over stem cell researcher
Paolo Macchiarini was one of the hottest names in science, but now dark clouds hang over his work Paolo Macchiarini / ITAR-TASS Photo Agency ...