Absolute morality garners trust, says new study
People who hold to moral absolutes in ethical dilemmas appear to be more trusted than those who engage in a cost/benefit analysis. In an innovative...
Testing anti-paedophilia drugs
A randomised trial raises ethical complications How do you run an ethical randomised trial to stop paedophilia? This is the question that hovers over research...
Can we slim down the welfare state without eugenics?
A British academic has created a storm of controversy over his proposal to reduce the welfare-dependent population The restless rent-a-crowd of British university protesters has...
The very rich are different from you and me
IVF and Russian money do not mix wellOlga Mirimskaya “Let me tell you about the very rich,” wrote American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. “They...
Ban on embryo research survives challenge in Italy
Constitutional Court rules that embryos are too precious to be used in research. Italy’s Constitutional Court has reaffirmed the legitimacy of a ban on human...
The company they keep
Why has Britain's scientific establishment named its new research institute after a eugenicist? “Europe’s superlab”, a £700 million research institute, the Francis Crick Institute, opens...
Trump’s muddled thoughts on abortion
There’s probably no other country in which bioethics plays a greater role in politics than in the United States. Or at least one bioethical issue...
Playing the bioethical Trump card
What do bioethicists think of Donald Trump? What do bioethicists think of Donald Trump? Probably not much. Trump views on bioethical issues are either ill-defined...
Everybody’s a winner when euthanasia combines with organ donation, say doctors
Several Dutch and Belgian doctors have proposed legal reforms to increase the popularity of combining euthanasia and organ donation in the Netherlands and Belgium. Writing...
That euthanasia stuff… does anyone remember what we decided?
Belgium legislators forgot to publish an amendmentCatherine Fonck (l) and Health Minister Maggie De Block in Parliament Despite – or perhaps because of –...
Is disability a disadvantage or a mere difference?
Renewed interest in disability and philosophy has culminated in some spirited academic debate Philosophical reflection on disability has a history, yet it is only...
Are minors capable of informed consent?
Two UK doctors have called for a sweeping review of adolescent consent protocols. In an article recently published (online-first) in the Journal of Medical Ethics,...