Media Watch
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The Government Is Trying to Wrap Its Mind Around Yours.
We're not far away from the world of Minority Report.
Washington Post | 13 Apr 2008 |
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Violence on the Brain.
A stinging critique of neuro-jurisprudence.
Social Science Research Network | April 2008 |
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The neuroscience delusion.
Neuroaesthetics is wrong about our experience of literature – and it is wrong about humanity, says Raymond Tallis.
London Times | 9 Apr 2008 |
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Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks..
A eugenic future of "designer babies" is not a good idea.
Washington Post | 15 Apr 2008 |
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The Curious Lives of Surrogates.
America, not India, is the world's Mecca for surrogacy.
Newsweek | 7 April 2008 |
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Egg Donors and Human Trafficking.
Why doesn't the US treat the market in women's eggs as human exploitation?
First Things | 1 April 2008 |
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Hyposkillia: deficiency of clinical skills.
Young doctors know how to order tests, all right. How about other stuff?
Texas Heart Institute Journal | 2005 |
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Girl Power.
Coercion, money, and the rise of reproductive freedom.
Slate | 5 March 2008 |
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For the Love of the Game.
Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, the Mitchell Report, and the adulteration of American sports.
The New Republic | 26 March 2008 |
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Satisfied customers.
William Saletan on abortion and your right to accurate sex selection.
Slate | 25 Feb 2008 |
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Defending Life and Dignity.
Leon Kass on how, finally, to ban human cloning.
Weekly Standard | 25 Feb 2008 |
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The First Ache.
An interview with the world expert in foetal pain.
New York Times | 10 Feb 2008 |
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Japan’s scientific geniuses prefer their labs to the limelight.
Someday, dreams Shinya Yamanaka, we will cure baldness.
Los Angeles Times | 11 Feb 2008 |
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Knighthood for Ian Wilmut disputed.
A British scientist says that the world-famed expert in cloning does not deserve his gong.
Center for Bioethics and Culture | 24 Jan 2008 |
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Profile of Wesley J. Smith.
Background on a leading campaigner against euthanasia and for human dignity.
citizenlink.com | 25 Jan 2008 |
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Politicising science.
Scientific evidence is being transformed into a new superstitious dogma.
Spiked | 15 Jan 2008 |
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What to Expect in ‘08.
Predictions for the year ahead in stem cell research.
Biopolitical Times | 19 Jan 2008 |
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Where the leading presidential candidates stand on cloning.
A summary of the candidates' often ambiguous position on therapeutic cloning.
blog.bioethics.net | 17 Jan 2008 |
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A Science Debate?.
What should ask presidential candidates?
BioPolitical Times | 24 Dec 2007 |
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Stem Cells and the President—an inside account.
Why President Bush refused to be seduced by "the siren song of political expediency".
Commentary | Jan 2008 |
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Parenting in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
The increasingly blurry line between therapy and enhancement is not cause for concern, but for celebration,
New York Sun | 12 Dec 2007 |
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The pitter patter of tiny carbon footprints.
It sounds like a joke from Monty Python’s University of Woolloomooloo, yet the Aussies proposing a carbon tax on newborns are serious.
Spiked | 11 Dec 2007 |
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You know you’re a bioethicist when.
Ten tell-tale signs.
Women's Bioethics Blog | 9 Dec 2007 |
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The New York Times’ New Hitman.
Are religion and science irredeemably feuding entities?
Center for Genetics and Society | 5 Dec 2007 |
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The ultimate miserabilist.
There is stiff competition these
days for the title of ‘Biggest Misanthrope’. But with his ‘pro-death’
book on why it is better never to have been born, David Benatar pips
the rest to the post.
Spiked | Nov 2007 |
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Single gay woman seeks baby. No man required.
As the furore over IVF laws and lesbians gets rowdier in the UK, Polly Vernon meets Louise Sloan - America's poster girl for families without fathers.
Observer | 2 Dec 2007 |
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The Boy in the Moon.
Caring for a severly handicapped child.
Globe and Mail | 1 Dec 2007 |
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Death in the Family.
A former governor of Washington is on a crusade to pass an assisted suicide law. His son opposes it.
New York Times | 2 Dec 2007 |
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Inside India’s Underground Trade in Human Remains.
Grave robbers are hard at work in West Bengal, supplying the world's medical schools.
Wired | 27 Nov 2007 |
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Stem-Cell Breakthrough.
Maureen Condic and Markus Grompe say that it is the best possible outcome to a debate that for too long pitted science and ethics against each other.
Wall Street Journal | 23 Nov 2007 |
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Enhancing the species.
Interview with John Harris, the libertarian bioethicist whose views have a great influence in the UK.
London Times | 10 Oct 2007 |
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Talking Back to Prozac.
Frederick Crews reviews 3 books which charge pharmaceutical companies with creating disease.
New York Review of Books | 6 Dec 2007 |
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Keeping Life Human: Science, Religion, and the Soul.
Leon Kass on the limitations of science.
Manhattan Institute | 18 Oct 2007 |
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Plastic Surgery’s Allure Cuts Both Ways.
Plastic surgeons have cranked their public relations machines into high
gear explaining the risks while also touting
their safety.
Washington Post | 18 Nov 2007 |
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Bright Scientists, Dim Notions.
As James Watson has showed, the twilight days of great scientists are not always happy ones.
New York Times | 28 Oct 2007 |
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The god of sperm.
An overview of the US sperm banking industry, focussing on California Cryobank.
LA Weekly | 26 Sept 2007 |
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Rebirth of a nation.
The film "300" carries a none-too-subtle message about eugenics.
Center for Genetics and Society | 19 Sept 2007 |
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Scientists do the numbers.
The limits of epidemiology
Los Angeles Times | 17 Sept 2007 |
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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.
The most popular paper ever published by PLoS. Sceptical and intriguing.
PLoS Medicine | 30 Aug 2005 |
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Playing catch-up with scientific change.
One of the great cliches of modern journalism is that technology is racing far ahead of morals. A very convenient excuse, says a philosopher.
MercatorNet | 16 Aug 2007 |
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A new challenge for human dignity.
Britain's fertility regulator has approved human-animal hybrids.
MercatorNet | 8 Sept 2007 |
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The Right to Life and Human Dignity.
Leon Kass finds human dignity in Thomas Hobbes
New Atlantis | Spring 2007 |
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