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.

Texas’ strict new abortion law has a novel twist

Michael Cook | 22 May 2021 |

tags: abortion, texas

Abortion foes are hoping that appeals will bring it to SCOTUS

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Should historic African-American remains and graves be protected?

Michael Cook | 22 May 2021 |

tags: burial law, cemetaries

University museums have discovered that they house skulls of slaves

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Sperm donation is big business

Michael Cook | 22 May 2021 |

tags: reproductive revolution, sperm donation

In 5 years’ time, it will be worth nearly US$5 billion

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Proposal to liberalise California’s assisted suicide law after only 5 years

Michael Cook | 22 May 2021 |

tags: assisted suicide, california

SB 380 will also make it more difficult to be a conscientious objector

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Malta remains an abortion hold-out in Europe

Michael Cook | 22 May 2021 |

tags: abortion, malta

All abortions are banned

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Leading US psychiatrist describes transgender medicine as “folly”

Michael Cook | 20 May 2021 |

tags:

'I’m absolutely convinced that this is folly and it’s going to collapse,' says Paul McHugh.

‘Resistance fighters’ against Belgian euthanasia publish anthology of behind-the-scenes observations

Michael Cook | 16 May 2021 |

tags: belgium, euthanasia

An open access book by ten Belgian health care professionals

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Another go at refuting the “famous violinist” argument for abortion

Michael Cook | 16 May 2021 |

tags: judith jarvis thompson

An Australian philosopher discusses the ‘self-aborting foetus’

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An Irish doctor fails in attempt to be a conscientious objector to Covid-19 policies

Michael Cook | 15 May 2021 |

tags: conscientious objection

GP suspended for openly flouting guidelines and questioning the science

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The zig-zag history of surgical treatment of spinal bifida

Michael Cook | 15 May 2021 |

tags: spinal bifida

When is a clinical assessment ‘objective’?

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Researchers discover how to help paralysed patients with brain to text communication

Michael Cook | 15 May 2021 |

tags: neurology

It may be possible to type without using hands

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If standard IVF works, why all the expensive add-ons?

Michael Cook | 15 May 2021 |

tags: icsi, ivf

ICSI is no more effective than standard IVF

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‘Uterine morality’: feminist eugenics in China

Michael Cook | 8 May 2021 |

tags: china, eugenics, gender ratio, one-child policy, reproductive revolution

Is it a crime to have ugly children?

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South Carolina may replace lethal injections with firing squads for capital punishment

Michael Cook | 8 May 2021 |

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The state is having difficulty in sourcing lethal medications

New Zealand super heavyweight weightlifter could become first openly transgender Olympic athlete

Michael Cook | 8 May 2021 |

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Laurel Hubbard is currently ranked 16th in the world

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