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…

Written by Owen Schaefer and Julian Savulescu This is an updated cross-post of an article published in MediCine On 2 February 2021, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, issues a broadside aga…

Written by Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu Dying patients who are in pain are usually given an analgesic, such as morphine, to ease their final hours and days. And if an analgesic isn’t enough, they can be given a sedative – somethin…

Written by Neil Levy Unsurprisingly, I’m a big believer in universities and higher education. I think research, of all kinds, is important for a whole range of reasons and that being educated is very often conducive to a good life. But we s…

Written by Maximilian Kiener, University of Oxford Bored Panda, a website that publishes “lightweight and inoffensive topics”, reports an allegedly true case from the US of a woman who refused to have her child vaccinated. The woman, who is…

by Dominic Wilkinson @Neonatalethics Our paper General anaesthesia in end-of-life care: extending the indications for anaesthesia beyond surgery has been published today in Anaesthesia. It is part of a series of work led by researcher Anton…

General anaesthesia is widely used for surgery and diagnostic interventions, to ensure the patient is completely unconscious during these procedures. However, in a paper published in Anaesthesia (a journal of the Association of Anaesthetist…