Bioethics
Religious Leaders Can Be a Vital Resource in the Push for Immunization
We tend to assume disseminating public health messages is solely the role of public servants such as Victorian chief medical officer Brett Sutton and his former federal counterpart Brendan Murphy,...
The Ethics of Human Testing and the Coronavirus Vaccine
The grassroots organization 1Day Sooner has been asking people to indicate their willingness to volunteer for human challenge studies of COVID-19. Challenge studies, in which healthy people are intentionally exposed...
Here Comes 1984: China’s Regime Is An Existential Threat to the World
The Chinese communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large. China is currently in a dangerously chaotic state. And...
Gene Editing: This One Small Fact Means the Difference Between Medical Procedure and Science Fiction Nightmare
Gene editing is one of the scarier things in the science news, but not all gene editing is the same. It matters whether researchers edit “somatic” cells or “germline” cells. Germline...