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.

Should defunding the police be a bioethics priority?

Michael Cook | 20 Jun 2020 |

tags: black lives matter, defunding police

Bioethicists can help reset the way budgets are made

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More protests over eugenics, this time at Michigan State

Michael Cook | 20 Jun 2020 |

tags: eugenics

A leading administrator has been sacked for his unpopular views

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Scandal about treatment of cadavers in France’s leading medical school

Michael Cook | 20 Jun 2020 |

tags: france, respect for cadavers

A national bioethical framework is needed for body donation  

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Italy takes steps to reverse declining population

Michael Cook | 20 Jun 2020 |

tags: demography, italy

​​​​​​​It includes a universal monthly allowance for children from the seventh month of pregnancy

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World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on Monday

Michael Cook | 13 Jun 2020 |

tags:

The pandemic has exposed the effects of ageism

‘Harry Potter’ author throws grenade into trans debate

Michael Cook | 13 Jun 2020 |

tags: transgenderism

J.K. Rowling comes out as trans sceptic

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Covid-19 driven by racism, say major journals

Michael Cook | 13 Jun 2020 |

tags:

In the wake of revulsion at the death of George Floyd, scientists and doctors vow to change

Eugenics president expunged from USC campus

Michael Cook | 13 Jun 2020 |

tags: eugenics, university of southern california

Name and bust of Rufus Von KleinSmid removed

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Ukraine begins to open borders for babies of surrogate mothers

Michael Cook | 13 Jun 2020 |

tags: surrogacy, ukraine

There could be as many as 1000 babies

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Big Tech hits pause button on facial recognition technology

Michael Cook | 13 Jun 2020 |

tags: facial recognition technology, privacy

But is it just a public relations stunt?

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An unexpected medicine for the pandemic: humility

Michael Cook | 13 Jun 2020 |

tags: coronavirus

Why are we all so polarised?

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The twin pandemics: Covid-19 and racism

Michael Cook | 7 Jun 2020 |

tags: coronavirus, george floyd, racism

Is protesting racism a legitimate excuse for ignoring lockdowns?

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Trump pulls the plug on the WHO

Michael Cook | 7 Jun 2020 |

tags: donald trump, world health organization

Questions remain about whether this is possible this year

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Francis Collins awarded Templeton Prize for reconciling faith and reason

Michael Cook | 7 Jun 2020 |

tags: francis collins, religion

Belief in God can be an entirely rational choice, he contends

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Does ‘believe scientists!’ include ‘believe the epidemiologists!’?

Michael Cook | 7 Jun 2020 |

tags: science

How do we choose between lives and livelihoods?

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