Should all medical research be regarded as ‘untrustworthy’?
A former editor of The BMJ says Yes The middle of the Covid-19 pandemic is not an auspicious moment to cast doubt upon the reliability...
A star is born: ‘dignity neuroscience’
‘Universal rights are based on fundamental features of human brain structure, function, and development’ The Code of Hammurabi. The Ten Commandments. The Beatitudes. The Magna...
The puzzling trajectory of support for assisted suicide in the UK
Is it rising or falling? Another poll in the United Kingdom and another dispute about how to interpret it. According to a press release from...
‘Everything went fine’: a new French film about assisted suicide
The ethical issues have become passé Another film promoting assisted suicide, this time from France: Tout S'Est Bien Passé (Everything Went Fine). It’s an art-house...
Is there a vaccine against fake news and misinformation?
Possibly not – for educated people Much of the media is taken up with how close vaccines are to bringing the Covid-19 pandemic to a...
American Medical Association wants ‘sex’ dropped from birth certificates
It may sound ‘woke’ but this document has always been contested People are easily polarised by birth certificates. In Pink News, an LGBT website, the...
Covid-19: we’re in the thick of it now. But who decides when it ends?
Oxford has set up a multi-disciplinary centre to study the issue Toward the end of his famous novel La Peste (The Plague), Camus remarks: “One...
Harvard Law School promotes legal rights for polyamory
Is it just about loving? Harvard University is a greenhouse for thought-leaders. So an initiative promoting polyamory rights at Harvard Law School suggests that a...
Another 4.7 million girls will go missing by 2030
The great gendercide continues Photo by Yogendra Singh on Unsplash Countries with a skewed sex ratio at birth because of a cultural preference for sons will...
Czech Republic and Roma
Sometimes, as a journalist, I feel like Winnie-the-Pooh, " a Bear of Very Little Brain”, when sifting through bioethics articles, which are normally very long,...
Czech Republic to compensate Roma women for forced sterilizations
The illegal procedures happened before and after Communism Prague The Czech Republic will compensate Roma (Gypsy) women who were forcibly sterilised both before and after...
First death under Western Australia’s new assisted dying law
An historic moment, says Premier Mark McGowan Australian readers will be interested to learn that a person has died under Western Australia’s new voluntary assisted...