China’s black market in scientific papers
Reporters for the journal Science have documented a thriving Chinese black market in articles and authorship in reputable scientific journals.Reporters for the journal Science have...
China’s black market in scientific papers
Reporters for the journal Science have documented a thriving Chinese black market in articles and authorship in reputable scientific journals.Reporters for the journal Science have...
China’s black market in scientific papers
Reporters for the journal Science have documented a thriving Chinese black market in articles and authorship in reputable scientific journals. Reporters for the journal Science...
Patricia Churchland on Brains R Us
Strict materialism is hardly a new idea but there are few scientists who are more daring about taking it to its logical conclusions than Patricia...
Wanted: ethical robots, the sooner the better
The ethics of creating autonomous and intelligent robots used to be a purely speculative question. But with the development of drones, self-navigated cruise missiles and...
Tasmania decriminalises abortion
The legislature of Australia’s island state, Tasmania, has passed an law which relieves abortion doctors of fear of prosecution and stifles dissent by conscientious objectors...
UK nurses could be jailed for wilful neglect
The UK government has announced that all National Health Service employees - doctors, nurses, and even hospital managers - could face five years in jail...
“Frankenstein” organs proposed for human enhancement
But what about creating hybrid organs to enhance the functioning of the human body? Do arguments about chimeras still apply? Much ink has been spilt...
Should we allow prenatal testing for autism?
In a controversial move last week the West Australian Reproductive Technology Council authorised an IVF clinic to screen out potentially autistic embryos. In a controversial...
HFEA scraps single-embryo policy after court defeat
The UK’s fertility watchdog, the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority, has lost a significant court battle to limit the number of multiple births from IVF...
European convention on organ trafficking on the way
The Council of Europe, the leading organistion for human right in Europe, is drafting a convention to ban organ trafficking which could come into force...
Belgium’s “Pope of euthanasia”
One of the leading figures in the euthanasia debate is Belgian oncologist Wim Distelmans. Because of the language barrier, he is an unfamiliar figure in...