South Carolina may replace lethal injections with firing squads for capital punishment
The state is having difficulty in sourcing lethal medications Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, Barcelona, site of executions during the Spanish Civil War The American...
New Zealand super heavyweight weightlifter could become first openly transgender Olympic athlete
Laurel Hubbard is currently ranked 16th in the world Forty-three-year-old transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will almost certainly represent New Zealand in the women’s super heavyweight...
US birth rate is the lowest since records began
For mothers of every major race and ethnicity, and in nearly every age group. The birth rate in the United States fell 4% in 2020....
Seattle biotech bypasses regulators to test controversial dementia treatment
CEO wants to jump-start a promising gene therapy Elizabeth Parris A Seattle biotech company has bypassed US regulators and sent six volunteers with dementia to...
UK Health Secretary appears to change his mind on assisted suicide
Matt Hancock has asked for statistics on suicide and terminal illness. Political resistance in the United Kingdom to assisted suicide seems to be weakening after...
German doctors drop opposition to assisted suicide after high court ruling
Bundestag also moves to update legislation German doctors have dropped their opposition to assisted suicide, in a controversial move which could pave the way for...
Australian moves on ‘assisted dying’
South Australia could be the next to legalise it South Australia. SA’s Upper House voted for the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide this week....
Does the world need another international treaty to deal with future pandemics?
23 leaders say that the world needs to be prepared Even as nations struggle to cope with Covid-19 catastrophes, 23 world leaders have called for...
3 polyamorous parents listed on child’s birth certificate in British Columbia
A new chapter in the Reproductive Revolution A new chapter in the Reproductive Revolution. A polyamorous “throuple” in British Columbia has succeeded in a legal...
Activist calls for moratorium on publication of Chinese transplant research
He claims that hospitals are killing prisoners for their organs China continues to use executed prisoners to supply its rapidly growing demand for organ transplants,...
‘Public involvement’ needed to pave way for controversial science, say researchers
Voters need to be softened up In October of 2020, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discovery...
At long last, the first issue of the ‘Journal of Controversial Ideas’!
Will articles on bioethics feature prominently in coming issues? More than a year after the launch of the controversial journal, the Journal of Controversial Ideas,...