Response to the: ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation “The new ISSCR guidelines provide a much welcomed framework for research that many find ethically contentious. Genome editing, the creation of human gam…

Written By Tess Johnson You can find the video recording of Maureen Kelley’s seminar here, and the podcast here. Lately, we have heard much in the media about disease transmission in conditions of poverty, given the crisis-point COVID-19 sp…

Written by Rebecca Brown Imposter syndrome has received recent, though still fairly limited, philosophical discussion. Scholars such as Katherine Hawley (and, drawing upon Hawley in a recent and excellent podcast, Rebecca Roache), amongst a…

By Charles Foster From the time of the decision of the House of Lords in Airedale NHS Trust v Bland (1993) until the decision of the Supreme Court in An NHS Trust v Y (2018) (which I will refer to here as ‘Y”) it had been unders…

Written by Hazem Zohny. You and your two fellow astronauts are on your way to Mars when you uncover a stowaway in your spaceship. His mere presence means there won’t be enough oxygen for anyone to survive the journey. You toss him out the s…

Written by Stephen Rainey An excitingly futuristic world of seamless interaction with computers! A cybernetic environment that delivers what I want, when I want it! Or: A world of built on vampiric databases, fed on myopic accounts of movem…

Written by Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, University of Cambridge; Christelle Langley, University of Cambridge, and Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford   As more and more people get vaccinated, some governments are relying on “vaccine passp…

Written by Doug McConnell A jury recently acquitted several activists charged with causing £25,000 worth of damage to Shell’s HQ in London despite the defendants admitting that they caused the damage and the judge informing the jury that th…

By Alberto Giubilini (University of Oxford) and Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University)   crosspost with Lockdown Sceptics   [Prof Jay Bhattacharya (Professor of Medicine, Stanford University) and I collaborate on Collateral Global…

By Charles Foster A couple of lockdown conversations: The other day I met a friend in the street. We hadn’t seen one another for over a year. We mimed the hugs that we would have given in a saner age, and started to talk. ‘There…