Omicron Travel Restrictions Are Not Ethically Justified
Written by: Alberto Giubilini, Julian Savulescu *A version of this blogpost appears as an article in the Spectator* Governments are at it again. It has become an involuntary reflex. A few days after South Africa sequenced and identif…
Read MoreCross Post: Omicron: Better To Be Safe (And Quick) Than Sorry
Written by: Dominic Wilkinson, and Jonathan Pugh On discovering the omicron variant, many countries moved quickly to impose travel restrictions and other public health measures, such as compulsory mask wearing. But, given the lack of data, …
Read MoreWriting Is Not That Easy: Grammarly As Affordance.
Written by Neil Levy I recently received an email from someone about a grant application in which I’m involved. In this email, the person coordinating the grant asked recipients to suggest revisions to the text, but noted that as it stood …
Read MoreEvent Summary: Vaccine Policies and Challenge Trials: The Ethics of Relative Risk in Public Health
St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Presented by Dr Sarah Chan, 18 November 2021 In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Sarah Chan explores three key areas of risk in ‘challenge trials’ – the deliberate infection of human participants to …
Read MoreMandatory Vaccination Should Be Selective, Not General
By Alberto Giubilini and Julian Savulescu As resurgent Covid-19 spreads rapidly across Europe, in countries such as Austria and the Netherlands the authorities are re-imposing lockdowns. And in response thousands are marching – and r…
Read MoreCross Post: Selective lockdowns can be ethically justifiable – here’s why
Written by: Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson, and Julian Savulescu COVID is surging in some European countries. In response, Austria and Russia are planning to reimpose lockdowns, but only for the unvaccinated. Is this ethical? Some …
Read MoreCross post: Why COVID passes are not discriminatory (in the way you think they are)
Alberto Giubilini (This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article) UK health secretary Sajid Javid’s plans for vaccination requirements for frontline NHS workers has reignited t…
Read MoreHow we got into this mess, and the way out
By Charles Foster This week I went to the launch of the latest book by Iain McGilchrist, currently best known for his account of the cultural effects of brain lateralisation, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of …
Read MoreNHS and Care Home Mandates Should Take Account of Natural Immunity to COVID
by Dominic Wilkinson, Jonathan Pugh, Julian Savulescu Yesterday, the health secretary, Sajid Javid announced that COVID vaccines would become mandatory for frontline NHS staff from April. Meanwhile, from tomorrow care home workers in…
Read MoreCross Post: Should You Stop Wearing A Mask Just Because the Law Gives You Permission To Do So?
Written by Maximilian Kiener On December 1 1955, in Alabama, Rosa Parks broke the law. But Parks was no ordinary criminal trying to take advantage of others. She merely refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person and was arrested…
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