The first laws passed are not meant to be ceilings but launching pads. So, expect bills to be filed loosening eligibility or otherwise allowing more sick people to get dead faster.
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The journal article authors argue that reproductive technologies should be essentially universally available to anyone who wants a baby.
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Canada’s leaders have shifted their focus from the mentally ill — which caused pushback — to dementia patients as euthanasia’s next big expansion.
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Usually, the attacks on “medical conscience” involve threatening to refuse doctors’ professional licenses. Now the stakes are raised.
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New information suggests that basic assumptions underlying many disciplines may be inadequate or mistaken. How they respond will predict their future.
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World political leaders like Donald Trump should be much more concerned about these developments; they could easily leap out of the lab.
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At one time, it was the less well-informed people who trusted science less. But repeated episodes like the Covid Crazy will mean that the better informed people will trust less.
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Siegel’s essay at Big Think can have one very desirable result: It is a good, though unwitting, summary of attitudes that must change if public trust in science is to be improved.
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Science writer Matt Ridley offers some helpful information about why the “furin cleavage site” was a smoking gun for top scientists for a lab origin for Covid.
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Fauci’s most revealing 1,141 pages are not a personal diary; despite all the personal material, he was writing at work on a government computer.
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A recent book, “Sex Beyond “Yes,” provides evidence for the estrangement of bioethics from majority opinion.
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Once euthanasia starts, it picks up steam year by year by year as hastened death becomes normalized.
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In the United States, the change plays out as a boom in centenarians. The population of persons aged 100 or more grew by 50% between 2010 and 2020.
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Killing to harvest organs is now sufficiently mainstream for NPR to have featured one of the latest proposal’s authors in a respectful interview.
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The earliest Christian ethical writing dating from about 100 — the Didache — explicitly condemns “murder” as profoundly sinful.
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Part of the reason we don’t know exactly how anesthesia works is surely that we do not know what consciousness is (there are at least 325 theories out there).
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Neurologist Brian Edlow hopes that brain–computer interface technology like Neuralink will help researchers communicate with covertly conscious people.
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Bioethicist Brandon Ambrosino reacts to the physicians’ protest and promotes the very de-professionalization that the original article decried.
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The moral stigma against suicide prevents many deaths — which is why assisted suicide activists don’t call it suicide.
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Biotech companies agree to ban or voluntarily refrain from doing that which can’t yet be done but conduct the very experiments necessary to learn how to do it.
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