Policy shift in Finland for gender dysphoria treatment
Experts are sceptical about the evidence base for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash The international activist group SEGM, the...
If standard IVF works, why all the expensive add-ons?
ICSI is no more effective than standard IVF “Standard IVF is fine for most people. So why are so many offered an expensive sperm injection...
Who are more moral: the God-botherers or the nothing-botherers?
They share many moral values A new study in PLOS ONE suggests that, while atheists and theists share moral values related to protecting vulnerable individuals,...
London newspaper reveals ‘shocking evidence’ about transgender treatments
The use of puberty blockers is basically ‘a live experiment’ on vulnerable children, says one psychiatrist After a legal battle The Mail on Sunday has...
Regenerative clinics: strong language from FDA
American regulators get tough A strongly worded article in JAMA gives a heads-up to stem cell clinics operating outside of the regulatory framework that they...
Unscrupulous scammers are selling stem cell therapies for Covid-19
Regulatory agencies need to be tough It is alarming that unsubstantiated stem cell-based treatments for Covid-19 are cropping up everywhere. Bioethicist Leigh Turner, of the...
Nuffield Council on Bioethics publishes coronavirus ethics guide
A very useful document for policy-makers Bioethicists are battling to produce guidelines for politicians and policy-makers in a puzzling time. The UK’s Nuffield Council on...
Competing Canadian reports on mental illness and euthanasia
Governments have to meet March deadline for amended legislation Photo by Ian Espinosa on Unsplash The Provincial and Federal governments in Canada need to amend...
Beware anti-ageing snake oil salesmen
The global anti-ageing market will be more than US$ 271 billion by 2024 If you are futurecasting about bioethical issues, cherchez la finance. According to...
Fudged research results erode people’s trust in experts
Only a modest proportion of all flawed publications are identified and retracted.Reports of research misconduct have been prominent recently and probably reflect wider problems of...
Transgender treatment for kids finally under ethical scrutiny
Very little has been written More and more young people believe they were born in the wrong body. According to the US Centers for Disease...
Misreporting science is unethical and even dangerous
Sensationalism is rife in science journalism. I work in the field of bioprinting, where the aim is to build biological tissues by printing living cells...