A transhumanist in conversation
Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan answers some tricky questions from his critics. Zoltan Istvan is an American writer, futurist and philosopher. He is also perhaps the best-known...
Lessons from Peru
I just stumbled across a documentary which was recently released in Peru, Cicatrices del engaño (Scars of Deception), about the 300,000 women and 22,000 men...
UK may offer free weight-loss surgery to fight epidemic
A quarter of Britons are obese, fuelling a rise in cases of type 2 diabetes, as well as heart disease, fatty liver disease and cancer....
Remembering the dark story of Peru’s population control campaign
Showcasing an interactive documentary about women and men who were sterilised in Peru in the mid-1990s by population controllers. The Quipu Project is an interactive...
Should severely disabled infants be euthanased?
Two of the leading voices in bioethics go head-to-head. Two of the leading voices in bioethics have a fascinating head-to-head confrontation on the euthanasia of...
Thai parliament votes to ban the surrogacy trade
Thailand’s interim parliament has voted in support of a bill to ban commercial surrogacy in the country. Thailand’s interim parliament has voted in support of...
An eloquent defense of euthanasia by organ removal
In a recent article in the journal Bioethics, two Oxford bioethicists provide a lucid defense of euthanasia by organ removal. The notion of death by...
Harvesting of executed prisoners’ organs will cease by 2015 – Chinese government
The harvesting of executed prisoners’ organs will end at the start of next year, says Chinese organ transplant committee chairman Huang Jiefu. The head of...
Raise your hand if you are a courageous, individualistic thinker
The ratio of liberals to conservatives in social psychology is absurdly lopsided, says a leading academic. A couple of years ago, one of the stories...
Looking for long-lost uncles
The other day I was speaking with a friend in Tasmania who has been researching the fate of a great-uncle who disappeared in the...
Super surgeon who uses stem cells accused of unethical conduct
Shades of Hwang Woo-suk. Has the stem cell jinx struck again? A world-famous Italian researcher has been accused of failing to obtain ethical approval for...
Russian politicians propose universal DNA profiling
Politicians from a minor nationalist party want the government to file fingerprints and DNA profiles of every Russian citizen. Politicians from a minor nationalist party,...