Michael Cook

Michael Cook likes bad puns, bushwalking and black coffee. He did a BA at Harvard University in the US where it was good for networking, but moved to Sydney where it wasn’t. He also did a PhD on an obscure corner of Australian literature. He has worked as a book editor and magazine editor and has published articles in magazines and newspapers in the US, the UK and Australia. Currently he is the editor of BioEdge, a newsletter about bioethics, and MercatorNet. He also writes a bioethics column for Australasian Science.

Ranking bioethics journals

Michael Cook | 17 Aug 2019 |

tags: bioethics journals, ranking

A very helpful list of the leading bioethics journals.

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India could ban commercial surrogacy

Michael Cook | 11 Aug 2019 |

tags: commercial surrogacy, india, surrogacy

Lok Sabha passes controversial bill

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Euthanasia doctor exonerated after death in Orthodox Jewish nursing home

Michael Cook | 11 Aug 2019 |

tags:

Could have implications for other institutions

‘Contraceptive revolution’ needed to curb population growth

Michael Cook | 11 Aug 2019 |

tags: contraception, population control

NEJM features plea for more funding

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California stem cell institute inflated voters’ hopes, says scientist

Michael Cook | 11 Aug 2019 |

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The hard work of researchers has been overshadowed by hucksters

Ohio family devastated by IVF error

Michael Cook | 11 Aug 2019 |

tags:

They discovered it through a DNA test

‘The Lancet’ makes firm commitment to gender balance

Michael Cook | 11 Aug 2019 |

tags: diversity, inclusion, the lancet

All events, panels and board will have at least 50% women

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UPDATES: Jeffrey Epstein. NSW abortion bill. Victoria euthanasia death

Michael Cook | 9 Aug 2019 |

tags: abortion, euthanasia, new south wales, transhumanism, victoria

Following up important stories of past weeks

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Spanish and US scientists go to China to create human-monkey chimeras

Michael Cook | 3 Aug 2019 |

tags: chimeras, ethics for export, stem cells

What about the ethics?

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Japanese scientist to use human-animal hybrids to create organs  

Michael Cook | 3 Aug 2019 |

tags: chimeras, stem cells

He is using a new technique of targeted organ generation

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The bizarre transhumanist fantasies of Jeffrey Epstein

Michael Cook | 3 Aug 2019 |

tags: cryonics, eugenics, jeffrey epstein, sperm banks, transhumanism

Not just cryonics, but eugenics

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Facebook is developing wearable brain-to-computer glasses

Michael Cook | 3 Aug 2019 |

tags: facebook, privacy

Huge potential for a new technology

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Our expanding circle should include chimpanzees

Michael Cook | 3 Aug 2019 |

tags: animal rights, chimpanzees, personhood

Supporters issue a chimp manifesto

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Nitschke keeps on pressing those buttons

Michael Cook | 3 Aug 2019 |

tags: euthanasia, philip nitschke

Now it is live-streamed suicides

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Is killing the disabled ‘eugenics’, or just a merciful release?

Michael Cook | 28 Jul 2019 |

tags: down syndrome, eugenics

Yes, say experts in disability care

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