Crisis in research: if Harvard isn’t safe from fraud, who is?
The president of Harvard, Claudine Gay, was forced to step down last month because of allegations of plagiarism. Not long after, Harvard’s DEI czar, Sherri...
Key papers which opposed abortion pill retracted
Academia is not all tea and crumpets in the senior common room. Sometimes it's a blood sport, with victors and victims, winners and losers. Raising...
Doctors of death
In countries where “assisted dying” in some form or other is legal, doctors are forming professional organisations to give guidance about how to help people...
British sperm is being exported overseas
Some women in the UK have been shocked to learn that their favourite donor’s sperm is being exported overseas. According to an article in BioNews,...
Israel – Hamas war: medics are dying in Gaza
In the latest news from the war in Palestine, a dozen Israeli commandos entered the Ibn Sina hospital in the West Bank town of Jenin...
What is the real story of rape pregnancies after Dobbs?
Sometimes it seems that the precision of statistics is inversely proportion to their reliability. A widely reported research letter to the journal JAMA Internal Medicine...
Pick the odd one out: measles, mumps, Covid, rubella, pregnancy, malaria
Is pregnancy a disease? With some bioethicists arguing that the continuance of the human species is not worth the candle or that the foetus is...
Canada delays euthanasia for people with mental illness
For a second year in a row, Canada’s federal government is going to delay opening euthanasia to people whose only condition is a mental illness....
British MP lashes out at surrogacy
A Conservative MP in the British Parliament has called for a ban on surrogacy. Miriam Cates, 41, told “The House”, a magazine for MPs, that...
Antisemitism hits sperm donation
Will the rise in global antisemitism affect sperm donation? An Australian man was planning to be a sperm donor for a lesbian couple. However, they...
Euthanasia activist says that today’s execution in Alabama is bad publicity for his movement
This afternoon, Alabama time, Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, will be executed in Holman Correctional Facility. This will be the second time that Smith has prepared...
Should doctors and nurses be disciplined for reporting illegal abortions?
Between 1861 and November 2022, only three British women had ever been convicted of having an illegal abortion. But, writes Zoe Williams in The Guardian,...